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Offering a unique and critical perspective on energy justice, this
Handbook delves into an emerging field of inquiry encapsulating
multiple strands of scholarship on energy systems. Covering key
topics including generation, transmission, distribution and demand,
it explores fundamental questions surrounding policy, climate
change, security and social movements. The Handbook illuminates the
rapidly expanding and diversifying scholarly domains where energy
justice has developed to date. Chapters provide an overview on
energy justice issues across a range of socio-technical and
political contexts, including differences along lines of race,
gender, age, geography, housing, socio-economic status and
infrastructure. The Handbook further incorporates non-Western
perspectives to expand the transitional vocabulary and frameworks
of energy justice. Grounded in empirically rich case studies from
across the world to support nuanced framings, situated methods and
informed policy, this Handbook will be of interest to students of
development, human geography, environmental policy and politics. It
will also be useful to practitioners working in international
organisations and agencies working in development and the
environment.
Energy has become a central concern of many strands of geographical
inquiry, from global climate change to the effects of energy
decisions on our lives. However, many aspects of the ‘black
box’ of relationships at the energy-society interface remain
unopened, especially in terms of the spatial underpinnings of
energy production and consumption within nations, cities and
regions. Debates focusing on the location and nature of energy
flows frequently fail to consider the multiple geographical
networks that illustrate and explain the distribution of fuels and
services around the world. Providing an integrated perspective on
the complex interdependencies between energy and geography, The
Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies offers a timely
conceptual framework to study the multiple facets of energy
geography, including security, space and place, planning,
environmental science, economics and political science.
Illustrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid
decision-making pathways in the domains of social justice and
environment, this book provides insights that will help move the
international community toward greater cooperation, stability, and
sustainability.
Energy Poverty and Vulnerability provides novel and critical
perspectives on the drivers and consequences of energy-related
injustices in the home. Drawing together original research
conducted by leading experts, the book offers fresh and innovative
insights into the ways in which hitherto unexplored factors such as
cultural norms, environmental conditions and household needs
combine to shape vulnerability to energy poverty. Chapter 1 of this
book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0
license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781315231518_oachapter1.pdf
Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781315231518_oachapter15.pdf
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138120617_oachapter3.pdf
Energy has become a central concern of many strands of geographical
inquiry, from global climate change to the effects of energy
decisions on our lives. However, many aspects of the 'black box' of
relationships at the energy-society interface remain unopened,
especially in terms of the spatial underpinnings of energy
production and consumption within nations, cities and regions.
Debates focusing on the location and nature of energy flows
frequently fail to consider the multiple geographical networks that
illustrate and explain the distribution of fuels and services
around the world. Providing an integrated perspective on the
complex interdependencies between energy and geography, The
Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies offers a timely
conceptual framework to study the multiple facets of energy
geography, including security, space and place, planning,
environmental science, economics and political science.
Illustrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid
decision-making pathways in the domains of social justice and
environment, this book provides insights that will help move the
international community toward greater cooperation, stability, and
sustainability.
Human health and well being are closely intertwined with the
ability to access affordable and modern domestic energy services,
including heating, cooling, lighting, cooking, and information
technology. Energy poverty is said to occur when such amenities
cannot be secured up to a socially- and physically- necessitated
level. Millions of people across the world suffer from energy
poverty due to a combination of financial, social and technical
circumstances. Energy Poverty and Vulnerability provides novel and
critical perspectives on the drivers and consequences of
energy-related injustices in the home. Drawing together original
research conducted by leading experts, the book offers fresh and
innovative insights into the ways in which hitherto unexplored
factors such as cultural norms, environmental conditions and
household needs combine to shape vulnerability to energy poverty.
Case studies from a wide range of countries are presented, thus
providing the first globally-integrated account of a policy and
research domain that has previously been divided between the Global
South and North. An examination of the diverse manifestations of
energy poverty is supplemented by an identification of this
condition's shared and context-specific causes. Conveying
policy-relevant insights that can inform decision-making, this book
can be of great interest to students and scholars of energy demand,
social justice, and sustainability transitions, as well as
decision-makers and practitioners who wish to find out more about
this complex issue.
This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on
European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and
infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a
variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a
geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which
household-level energy deprivation both influences and is
contingent upon disparities occurring at a wider range of spatial
scales. There is a strong focus on the relationships among energy
transformation, institutional change and place-based factors in
determining the nature and location of energy-related injustices.
The book also explores how patterns and structures of energy
poverty have changed over time, as evidenced by some of the common
measures used to describe the condition. In part, this means
investigating the makeup of energy poor demographics across various
social and spatial cleavages. More broadly, it also argues that
energy sector reconfigurations are both reflected in and shaped by
various domains of social and political organization, especially in
terms of creating poverty-relevant outcomes.
Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive
critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on
energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and
accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development,
consumption, vulnerability and transition together to illustrate
the social significance of energy systems in the global North and
South. The book features case studies, examples, discussion
questions, activities, recommended reading and more, to facilitate
its use in teaching. Energy and Society deploys contemporary
geographical concepts and approaches but is not narrowly
disciplinary. Its critical perspective highlights connections
between energy and significant socio-economic and political
processes, such as globalisation, urban isation, international
development and social justice, and connects important issues that
are often treated in isolation, such as resource availability,
energy security, energy access and low-carbon transition.
Co-authored by leading researchers and based on current research
and thinking in the social sciences, Energy and Society presents a
distinctive geographical approach to contemporary energy issues. It
is an essential resource for upperlevel undergraduates and Master's
students in geography, environmental studies, urban studies, energy
studies and related fields.
Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive
critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on
energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and
accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development,
consumption, vulnerability and transition together to illustrate
the social significance of energy systems in the global North and
South. The book features case studies, examples, discussion
questions, activities, recommended reading and more, to facilitate
its use in teaching. Energy and Society deploys contemporary
geographical concepts and approaches but is not narrowly
disciplinary. Its critical perspective highlights connections
between energy and significant socio-economic and political
processes, such as globalisation, urban isation, international
development and social justice, and connects important issues that
are often treated in isolation, such as resource availability,
energy security, energy access and low-carbon transition.
Co-authored by leading researchers and based on current research
and thinking in the social sciences, Energy and Society presents a
distinctive geographical approach to contemporary energy issues. It
is an essential resource for upperlevel undergraduates and Master's
students in geography, environmental studies, urban studies, energy
studies and related fields.
This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on
European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and
infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a
variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a
geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which
household-level energy deprivation both influences and is
contingent upon disparities occurring at a wider range of spatial
scales. There is a strong focus on the relationships among energy
transformation, institutional change and place-based factors in
determining the nature and location of energy-related injustices.
The book also explores how patterns and structures of energy
poverty have changed over time, as evidenced by some of the common
measures used to describe the condition. In part, this means
investigating the makeup of energy poor demographics across various
social and spatial cleavages. More broadly, it also argues that
energy sector reconfigurations are both reflected in and shaped by
various domains of social and political organization, especially in
terms of creating poverty-relevant outcomes.
Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy
consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s
resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient?
One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally
efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves
significant issues of social acceptance and public participation.
Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the
assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people
and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing
upon case studies from a number of European cities that have
undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the
author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a
strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to
economic change and building transformation."
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