The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies

ISBN-13: 9781472464194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 386 str.

Stefan Bouzarovski; Martin J. Pasqualetti

Opis

The interconnections between energy and geography lie at the heart of contemporary societies: From recent events in Georgia, Chechnya, Crimea, Sudan, Syria, the South China Sea, and the Strait of Hormuz - no less the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - to the forms and functions of cities, the heating and cooling of homes, and the fuels that move people and goods. Increasingly energy is becoming the central concern of many strands of geographical inquiry, from environmental impacts and potential solutions to the balance of economic and politics power and the effect of energy on our lives, cultures and social interaction. However, the black box of energy demand and culture in energy research remains unopened, especially in terms of the social practices that underpin energy consumption within different material sites. Debates around locations and processes of energy production frequently fail to take into account the complex energy chains that allow various fuels and services to be distributed across wide geographical areas. Providing an integrated perspective on the relationship between energy and geography, this Research Companion offers a novel conceptual framework for studying the multiple facets of security, sustainability, space and place as they relate to energy, while foregrounding such themes in current debates within the disciplines of human geography, planning, environmental science, economics and political science. Demonstrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid decision-making pathways in the domains of security, social justice, and environment, this book also develops policy-relevant insights.

Recenzje

[T]his volume on energy geographies provides a diversity of theoretical and empirical perspectives from a range of countries (USA, UK, Macedonia, South Africa, Mozambique among others) useful for scholars and practitioners who wish to have an introduction to and overview of the social sciences of energy.
Ankit Kumar, Local Environment, The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Energy territories and transitions 1. New geographies of the Texas energy revolution 2. A Study of technology and policy in liquid biofuel production in the United States 3. New perspectives on an ancient energy resource: biomass, bioenergy, and emerging bio-economies 4. The changing landscape of biofuels: A global review 5. Geographical pivots and 21st century Eurasian energy flows: an energy heartland from the Arctic to Central Asia 6. Mobile energy and obdurate infrastructure: Distant carbon and the making of modern Europe 7. Emerging countries, cities and energy: questioning transitions 8. Geographies of energy intermediation and governance in the context of low carbon transitions Part 2: Energy Landscapes and the Public 9. The re-scaling of energy politics: UK nuclear facility siting in historical context 10. Re-framing the shale decision: How do we evaluate regional costs and benefits? 11. Siting dynamics in energy transitions: how generating electricity from natural gas saves cherished landscapes 12. Experiencing citizen deliberation over energy infrastructure siting: a mixed method evaluative study 13. Under the curse of coal: mined-out identity, environmental injustice and alternative futures for coal energy landscapes 14. Construction of hydropower landscapes through local discourses: a case study from Andalusia (Southern Spain) 15. Finding locations for endurably objectionable energy-related facilities: The CLAMP policy Part 3: Relational perspectives and the Politics of Energy 16. Governing transitions in energy demand 17. Embedding energy transitions in the community 18. Energy and place-making in informal settlements: a view from Cape Town 19. The energy geographies of incremental infrastructures in Ga Mashie, Accra 20. Exhaustible-renewable wind power 21. Conflictive energy landscapes: Petrocasas and the petrochemical revolution in Venezuela 22. A Luta Continua: Contending high and low carbon energy transitions in Mozambique 23. The politics of forests: Community dimensions of energy resource use