Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands: Cultural and Policy Implications

ISBN-13: 9781032172996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Kiron C. Neale

Opis

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policy-making to achieve mainstream solar energy in small, tropical islands. It will be of great interest to scholars of energy policy, energy transitions, climate change, cultural studies and small states development, and industry professionals. 

Spis treści

Part 1: Small Islands, Energy Transitions and ‘Mainstream Culture’ 1. ‘Sun, Sea and Sand’ and Solar Energy 2. Energy Transitions and The Mainstream 3. Energy Transitions and Mainstream Energy Cultures  Part 2: Beginning the Household Solar Energy Transition 4. Agriculture, Fossil Fuels and Electricity 5. Electricity and Mainstream Energy Cultures  Part 3: Transitioning to and through Household Solar Energy Technologies 6. Electricity, Solar Hot Water and Mainstream Cultural Change 7. Solar Water Heating, PV and Policy Implementation  Part 4: Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands 8. Conclusions on Mainstreaming Solar Energy

 

O autorze

Kiron C. Neale completed his postgraduate studies at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute in 2018, and is currently involved in coordinating energy efficiency projects for small to medium-sized enterprises in Oxfordshire as the EiE Environmental Officer at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and grew up in Southern Trinidad (San Fernando and Princes Town).