Energy and Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge (Energy, Climate and the Environment) - Hardcover

Sovacool, Benjamin K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137298642 ISBN 13: 9781137298645

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Concepts from justice and ethics can significantly inform energy decision-makers. Benjamin K. Sovacool introduces readers to the injustices and insecurities inherent in the global energy system before presenting an energy justice conceptual framework consisting of availability, affordability, due process, good governance, prudence, intergenerational equity, and responsibility. He showcases the application of these principles to eight real-world case studies involving national energy planning in Denmark, the Warm Front program in the United Kingdom, the World Bank's Inspection Panel, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, São Tomé e Príncipe's Natural Resource Fund, solar energy in Bangladesh, climate change adaptation efforts in least developed countries, and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative in Ecuador.

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Review:

'In Energy & Ethics, Benjamin K. Sovacool demonstrates through important case studies and original research the essential link between access to resources and individual and community opportunity and freedom. As we move into the twenty-first century, where population, environmental quality, and resource pressures will imprint themselves centrally on every aspect of society, this book provides a thought-provoking guide to the challenges ahead.' - Daniel M. Kammen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

'It's often said that energy is the lifeblood of modern societies. It follows that if we want a society that is just and fair, then energy decisions must support these goals. Benjamin K. Sovacool's perceptive and innovative new book examines energy decisionmaking in this context. He makes a powerful case for energy justice.' - James Gustave Speth, Yale University and Vermont Law School, USA
 
'Benjamin K. Sovacool, one of the smartest energy analysts anywhere, clearly explains that energy policy has as much to do with justice and ethics as it does economics and technology. Energy and Ethics fills a big hole in the policy debate moving us closer to a consensus beyond political stalemate. Essential reading.' - David W. Orr, Oberlin College, USA
 
'When we think of energy, we conjure up images of infrastructure such as coal mines, well fields, pipelines, power and plants. We worry about supply, demand, security, risk, public acceptance, costs, and even war. What we rarely think about is the twinned topics of ethics and justice. With this new book, Benjamin K. Sovacool has changed all that. Energy studies will never be the same. And that's a good thing. In these times of increasing competition for the energy resources that await discovery beneath mountains, prairies, deserts, forests, permafrost, oceans, and Arctic ice, what could be more important than justice?' - Martin J. Pasqualetti, Arizona State University, USA

Book Description:

Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and global case studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137298642
• ISBN 13: 9781137298645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300