The Politics of Energy: Challenges for a Sustainable Future

ISBN-13: 9780415523073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 168 str.

Steve Vanderheiden

Opis

This text brings together leading scholars on the politics of energy to examine the natural resources and developing technologies that are essential to its production and the various public and private factors affecting its use, along with the ecological consequences of both. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Recenzje

"This eminently readable text will provide an informed academic reader with a motley collection of critical issues facing specialists on global energy and environment. It illustrates the constant tensions and politicking that occur behind the scenes of any energy development, and deserves a spot on any energy or development expert’s shelf." – Joel Krupa, Environmental Development

Spis treści

1. The politics of energy: an introduction Steve Vanderheiden  2. Poor little rich countries: another look at the ‘resource curse’Sudhir Chella Rajan  3. Energy and human ecology: a critical security approach Shane Mulligan  4. Confronting risks: regulatory responsibility and nuclear energy Steve Vanderheiden  5. Déjà vu all over again: climate change and the prospects for a nuclear power renaissance Robert Duffy  6. ‘Hasta la vista, baby!’ The Solar Grand Plan, environmentalism, and social constructions of the Mojave Desert Christian Hunold and Steven Leitner  7. A middle range theory of energy politics: the struggle for energy efficient appliances Rachael Shwom  8. Regional policy integration to support full renewable power deployment for Europe by 2050 Anthony Patt, Nadejda Komendantova, Antonella Battaglini, and Johan Lilliestam  9. Climate deadlocks: the environmental politics of energy systems Karena Shaw

O autorze

Steve Vanderheiden is Associate Professor of political science and environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.