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This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination
of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research
agenda in energy democracy. With protests over fossil fuels and
controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies,
democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement.
Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of
energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there
are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic
demands on energy systems. This volume defines energy democracy as
both a social movement and an academic area of study and examines
it through a social science and humanities lens, explaining key
concepts and reflecting state-of-the-art research. The collection
is comprised of six parts: 1 Scalar Dimensions of Power and
Governance in Energy Democracy 2 Discourses of Energy Democracy 3
Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action 4 Democratic and
Participatory Principles 5 Energy Resource Tensions 6 Energy
Democracies in Practice The vision of this handbook is explicitly
transdisciplinary and global, including contributions from
interdisciplinary international scholars and practitioners. The
Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy will be the premier source
for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy,
including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and
public participation.
A step-by-step guide connecting theory to practice Environmental
Conflict Management introduces students to the research and
practice of environmental conflict and provides a step-by-step
process for engaging stakeholders and other interested parties in
the management of environmental disputes. In each chapter, authors
Dr. Tracylee Clarke and Dr. Tarla Rai Peterson first introduce a
specific concept or process step and then provide exercises,
worksheets, role-plays, and brief case studies so students can
directly apply what they are learning. The appendix includes six
additional extended case studies for further analysis. In addition
to providing practical steps for understanding and managing
conflict, the text identifies the most relevant laws and policies
to help students make more informed decisions. Students will
develop techniques for public involvement and community outreach,
strategies for effective meeting management, approaches to
negotiating options and methodologies for communicating concerns
and working through differences, and outlines for implementing and
evaluating strategies for sustaining positive community relations.
Climate Change Politics offers a critical, yet hopeful examination
of political vitality in the politics of climate change and
discusses how people use various forms of communication to
challenge existing power hierarchies. Because the meanings of
climate change and of the numerous aspects of reality associated
with it are constructed through communication, we offer an analysis
of communication practices and structures as constitutive of
climate change politics. A broad variety of case studies
demonstrate how the choices made within various forms of public
engagement result from social interaction based on communication.
The editors of the volume follow Chantal Mouffe in describing "the
political" as engagement with processes of debate and decision
making on collective issues where different values, preferences,
and ideals are played out and opposed. This book examines
communication as a key component of climate change politics and
shows how climate change communication has the potential to
invigorate civic politics. It analyzes how citizens represent,
construct, and circulate ideas about climate change and how these
practices relate to decisions and public policies, as well as to
political identities. Contributing authors explore how changes in
the ways information is produced and consumed have contributed to
new spaces for political engagement. They analyze a range of
semiotic resources and practices within which the meanings of
climate change are negotiated. By looking at the multiple ways
people experience and communicate about climate change, the
analysis extends beyond the cognitive to include emotional,
aesthetic, and other epistemologies that shape political engagement
with this issue. Individual chapters examine various forms of
climate change communication, including artistic expression ranging
from installations to cinema, on web-based spaces, and on other
alternative media. Working from the premise that communicative
practices provide the basis for broad public engagement, this book
identifies and examines how the possibilities entailed in that
engagement may yet contribute to a transformation of climate change
politics that empowers both individual political subjects and their
communities. Climate Change Politics is likely to be of interest to
a variety of audiences including researchers and students of
climate change politics, environmental communication, and social
movements in disciplines such as communication, geography,
political science, and sociology. The book is suitable as a
textbook for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on
climate change and society; environmental communication; and
science, technology, and society.
"Deniers of climate change have benefited from political strategies
developed by conservative think tanks and public relations experts
paid handsomely by the energy industry. With this book,
environmental activists can benefit from some scholarly attention
turned to their efforts. This book exhibits the best that public
scholarship has to offer. Its authors utilize sophisticated
rhetorical theory and criticism to uncover the inventional
constraints and possibilities for participants at various sites of
the Step-It-Up day of climate activism. What makes this book
especially valuable is that it is not only directed to fellow
communication scholars, but is written in a clear and accessible
style to bring the insights of an academic field to a broader
public of activists committed to building an environmental social
movement." - Prof. Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington "This
is an unusually interesting volume grounded in a sustained and
coordinated analysis of the Step It Up campaign. Generating a
multifaceted and shared archive for analyzing the SIU campaign on
global warming, the volume's multiple authors critically examine
intersecting dimensions of the SIU campaign-its persuasive
strategies, organizational dynamics, and political practices for
everyday citizens-with an eye on implications for enhancing the
larger environmental movement. Readers with a practical and
theoretical interest in social and political movements will find
this book engaging and leavened with heuristic value." - Professor
Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University, Bloomington
The term 'smart grid' has become a catch-all phrase to represent
the potential benefits of a revamped and more sophisticated
electricity system that can fulfil several societal expectations
related to enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability. Smart
grid promises to enable improved energy management by utilities and
by consumers, to provide the ability to integrate higher levels of
variable renewable energy into the electric grid, to support the
development of microgrids, and to engage citizens in energy
management. However, it also comes with potential pitfalls, such as
increased cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy risks. Although
discussions about smart grid have been dominated by technical and
economic dimensions, this book takes a sociotechnical systems
perspective to explore critical questions shaping energy system
transitions. It will be invaluable for advanced students, academic
researchers, and energy professionals in a wide range of
disciplines, including energy studies, energy policy, environmental
science, sustainability science and environmental engineering.
Although the Cold War is commonly considered 'over,' the legacies
of that conflict continue to unfold throughout the globe. One site
of post-Cold War controversy involves the consequences of U.S.
nuclear weapons production for worker safety, public health, and
the environment. Over the past two decades, citizens,
organizations, and governments have passionately debated the nature
of these consequences, and how they should be managed. This volume
clarifies the role of communication in creating, maintaining, and
transforming the relationships between these parties, and in
shaping the outcomes of related organizational and political
deliberations. Providing various perspectives on nuclear culture
and discourse, this anthology serves as a model of
interdisciplinary communication scholarship that cuts across the
subfields of political, environmental, and organizational
communication studies, and rhetoric.
Although the Cold War is commonly considered 'over,' the legacies
of that conflict continue to unfold throughout the globe. One site
of post-Cold War controversy involves the consequences of U.S.
nuclear weapons production for worker safety, public health, and
the environment. Over the past two decades, citizens,
organizations, and governments have passionately debated the nature
of these consequences, and how they should be managed. This volume
clarifies the role of communication in creating, maintaining, and
transforming the relationships between these parties, and in
shaping the outcomes of related organizational and political
deliberations. Providing various perspectives on nuclear culture
and discourse, this anthology serves as a model of
interdisciplinary communication scholarship that cuts across the
subfields of political, environmental, and organizational
communication studies, and rhetoric.
The term 'smart grid' has become a catch-all phrase to represent
the potential benefits of a revamped and more sophisticated
electricity system that can fulfil several societal expectations
related to enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability. Smart
grid promises to enable improved energy management by utilities and
by consumers, to provide the ability to integrate higher levels of
variable renewable energy into the electric grid, to support the
development of microgrids, and to engage citizens in energy
management. However, it also comes with potential pitfalls, such as
increased cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy risks. Although
discussions about smart grid have been dominated by technical and
economic dimensions, this book takes a sociotechnical systems
perspective to explore critical questions shaping energy system
transitions. It will be invaluable for advanced students, academic
researchers, and energy professionals in a wide range of
disciplines, including energy studies, energy policy, environmental
science, sustainability science and environmental engineering.
Issues of wilderness and wetlands preservation, clean air and clean
water, and the sustainable use of natural resources have figured
prominently in American political debate of the twentieth century.
Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have addressed these issues,
rhetorically in their public addresses and pragmatically in their
policies and appointments to pertinent positions. Green Talk in the
White House gathers an array of approaches to studying
environmental rhetoric and the presidency, covering a range of
administrations and a diversity of viewpoints on how the concept of
the ""rhetorical presidency"" may be modified in this policy area.
Tarla Rai Peterson's introduction to the book discusses both
methodological and substantive issues in studying presidential
rhetoric on the environment. In subsequent chapters, noted scholars
examine various aspects of half a dozen modern presidencies to shed
light not only on those administrations but also on the study of
environmental rhetoric itself. The final section of the book then
directs attention to the future of presidential rhetoric and
environmental governance, with looks ""in"" at state-level
environmental issues and looks ""out"" at the international context
of environmentalism.
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