Southeast Asian Energy Transitions: Between Modernity and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138546851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Mattijs Smits

Opis

Addressing the apparent tensions between modernity and sustainability in Southeast Asia, this book offers novel insights into the global challenge of moving towards a low-carbon energy system. With an original and accessible take on social theory related to energy transitions, modernity and sustainability, Mattijs Smits argues for a reinvigorated geography of energy. He also challenges universalistic and linear assumptions about energy transitions and makes the case for ’energy trajectories’, stressing embeddedness, contingency and connections between scales.

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword, Philip Hirsch; Preface; Energy, modernity and sustainability in Southeast Asia; Energy transitions, modernity and sustainability; Regional and national energy transitions in Southeast Asia; Local energy transitions? The case for energy trajectories; Energy and modernity in everyday life; Towards a critical geography of energy transitions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Mattijs Smits researches and teaches in the fields of energy policy and politics, environment, sustainability, (rural) development and climate finance. During his academic and professional career, he spent extended periods living and working as a researcher and consultant in Southeast Asia, notably in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. He holds degrees from four different universities on three continents: a BSc and MSc from the University of Utrecht and Wageningen University, and PhD degrees from The University of Sydney and Chiang Mai University (as part of a cotutelle arrangement). He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands.