A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures

2021-08-25 Political Science

Author : Susana Batel
Release : 2021-08-25
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures written by Susana Batel. This book was released on 2021-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research agendas on green growth and sustainability. It brings together authors from different socio-geographical and disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences to reflect upon, discuss and advance what we propose to be five cornerstones of a critical approach: overcoming individualism and socio-cognitivism; repoliticisations – recognising and articulating power relations; for interdisciplinarity; interventions – praxis and political engagement with research; and overcoming localism and spatial determinism: As such, this book offers academics, students and practitioners alike a comprehensive perspective of what it means to be critical when inquiring into the social acceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures.

The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract

2024-01-07 Business & Economics

Author : Raphael J. Heffron
Release : 2024-01-07
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract written by Raphael J. Heffron. This book was released on 2024-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in society. The focus will be on improving legal systems at local, national and international levels while ensuring that justice is a core issue within energy law, the legal system and more broadly in society.

Global Challenges, Local Impacts: Rethinking Governance, Sustainability, and Consumption in Light of Climate Change

2024-01-31 Science

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Release : 2024-01-31
Genre : Science
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Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures

2022-09-29 Business & Economics

Author : Majia Nadesan
Release : 2022-09-29
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures written by Majia Nadesan. This book was released on 2022-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures explores how our dominant carbon and nuclear energy assemblages shape conceptions of participation, risk, and in/securities, and how they might be reengineered to deliver justice and democratic participation in transitioning energy systems. Chapters assess the economies, geographies and politics of current and future energy landscapes, exposing how dominant assemblages (composed of technologies, strategies, knowledge and authorities) change our understanding of security and risk, and how they these shared understandings are often enacted uncritically in policy. Contributors address integral relationships across the production and government of material and human energies and the opportunities for sustainable and democratic governance. In addition, the book explores how interest groups advance idealized energy futures and energy imaginaries. The work delves into the role that states, market organizations and civil society play in envisioned energy change. It assesses how risks and security are formulated in relation to economics, politics, ecology, and human health. It concludes by integrating the relationships between alternative energies and governance strategies, including issues of centralization and decentralization, suggesting approaches to engineer democracy into decision-making about energy assemblages. Explores descriptive and normative relationships between energy and democracy Reviews how changing energy demand and governance threaten democracies and democratic institutions Identifies what participative energy transformations look like when paired with energy security Reviews what happens to social, economic and political infrastructures in the process of achieving sustainable and democratic transitions

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