Transforming Power : Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781412805148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str.

John Byrne; Noah Toly; Leigh Glover

Opis

Recent debate continues to engage issues of energy authoritarianism, focusing on the contest between energy-driven globalization (the spread of energy deregulation and the simultaneous consolidation of the oil, coal, and gas industries) and the so-called "sustainable energy" strategy that celebrates the local and community-scale characteristics of renewable energy. Transforming Power is divided into three parts: Energy, Environment, and Society; The Politics of Conventional Energy; and The Politics of Sustainable Energy. It interrogates current contemporary energy assumptions, exploring the reflexive relationship between energy, environment, and society, and examining energy as a social project.

Spis treści

1: Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse; 1: Energy and Poverty; 2: Energy, Economy, and Poverty: The Past and Present Debate; 3: Unraveling Relationships in the Energy-Poverty-Gender Nexus; 2: Energy and Security; 4: Protecting Overseas Oil Supplies: The Globalization of the “Carter Doctrine”; 5: Nuclear Power in an Age of Global Terrorism: Implications for Energy and National Security; 3: Energy and Globalization; 6: The Political Economy of Electricity Liberalization; 7: The World Bank’s Support for Large Dams: A Case of Institutional Amnesia?; 4: Energy and Environment; 8: Can Geosequestration Save the Coal Industry?; 9: From Love-ins to Logos: Charting the Demise of Renewable Energy as a Social Movement

O autorze

Dietrich Kebschull