Energy Justice in a Changing Climate: Social Equity and Low-Carbon Energy

ISBN-13: 9781780325767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str.

Karen Bickerstaff;Gordon Walker;Harriet Bulkeley

Opis

Energy justice is one of the most critical, and yet least developed, concepts associated with sustainability. Much has been written about the sustainability of low carbon energy systems and policies - with an emphasis on environmental, economic and geopolitical issues. However, less attention has been directed at the social and equity implications of these dynamic relations between energy and low carbon objectives - the complexity of injustice associated with whole energy systems (from extractive industries, through to consumption and waste) that transcend national boundaries and the social, political-economic and material processes driving the experience of energy injustice and vulnerability. Drawing on a substantial body of original research from an international collaboration of experts this unique collection addresses energy poverty, just innovation, aesthetic justice, and the justice implications of 'low carbon' energy systems and technologies. The book offers new thinking on how interactions between climate change, energy policy and equity and social justice can be understood and develops a critical agenda for energy justice research.

Spis treści

Introduction: making sense of energy justice - Karen Bickerstaff, Gordon Walker and Harriet Bulkeley 1. Household energy vulnerability as 'assemblage' - Rosie Day and Gordon Walker 2. Precarious domesticities: energy vulnerability among urban young adults - Stefan Bouzarovski, Saska Petrova, Matthew Kitching and Josh Baldwick 3. Energy justice in sustainability transitions research - Malcolm Eames and Miriam Hunt 4. Energy justice and the low-carbon transition: assessing low-carbon community programmes in the UK - Sara Fuller and Harriet Bulkeley 5. Energy justice and climate change: reflections from a Joseph Rowntree Foundation research programme - Katharine Knox 6. Equity across borders: a whole-systems approach to micro-generation - Charlotte Adams, Sandra Bell, Philip Taylor, Varvara Alimisi, Guy Hutchinson, Ankit Kumar and Britta Rosenlund Turner 7. Fair distribution of power-generating capacity: justice, microgrids and utilizing the common pool of renewable energy - Maarten Wolsink 8. Framing energy justice in the UK: the nuclear case - Catherine Butler and Peter Simmons 9. Justice in energy system transitions: the case of carbon capture and storage - Duncan McLaren, Kristian Krieger and Karen Bickerstaff