Description
Book SynopsisOffering a unique and critical perspective on energy justice, this Handbook delves into an emerging field of inquiry encapsulating multiple strands of scholarship on energy systems. Covering key topics including generation, transmission, distribution and demand, it explores fundamental questions surrounding policy, climate change, security and social movements.
The Handbook illuminates the rapidly expanding and diversifying scholarly domains where energy justice has developed to date. Chapters provide an overview on energy justice issues across a range of socio-technical and political contexts, including differences along lines of race, gender, age, geography, housing, socio-economic status and infrastructure. The Handbook further incorporates non-Western perspectives to expand the transitional vocabulary and frameworks of energy justice.
Grounded in empirically rich case studies from across the world to support nuanced framings, situated methods and informed policy, this Handbook will be of interest to students of development, human geography, environmental policy and politics. It will also be useful to practitioners working in international organisations and agencies working in development and the environment.
Trade Review'The Handbook on Energy Justice
offers a rich collection that both consolidates the field and pushes its boundaries in new and interesting ways, drawing together multiple and divergent accounts of the possibilities and challenges of energy justice as a concept and call to action. A much-needed compass for our challenging times.’ -- Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Energy Justice 1 Sara Fuller and Stefan Bouzarovski 1 Whole-systems energy justice 13 Adolfo Mejía-Montero and Kirsten E. H. Jenkins 2 Transport and energy justice 25 Karen Lucas and Muhammed Adeel 3 Energy justice and flexibility 40 Michael Fell, Gareth Powells, Charlotte Johnson, Juan Pablo Cárdenas Álvarez, Juan Manuel España Forero and Santiago Ortega Arango 4 Energy justice and health 65 Kimberley O’Sullivan 5 Energy justice and development 79 Joshua Kirshner and Jessica Omukuti 6 Rural energy justice 94 Conor Harrison and Shelley Welton 7 Energy justice and housing 112 Sergio Tirado Herrero 8 Tracing the roots of energy justice in action: environmental justice, climate justice, and the New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act 131 Raya Salter 9 Combating power imbalance and arbitrariness through procedural energy justice 144 Roman Sidortsov and Corey Katz 10 Quantifying energy justice 158 Benjamin C. McLellan and Andrew J. Chapman 11 Policy barriers and the dynamics of energy justice 175 Iain Todd 12 Energy justice and gender 188 Caitlin Robinson, Neil Simcock and Saska Petrova 13 Energy justice across the life-course 201 Gordon Waitt 14 Energy justice, modernity and transitions: more-than-modern energy for all in the Global South 213 Paul Munro 15 The right to energy: Learning from struggles for food, water, and rights to nature 226 Tristan Partridge 16 Towards more pluralistic energy justice frameworks 240 Sandra Jazmin Barragán-Contreras 17 Energy justice as a new communal project? Community energy systems and the energy access gap 253 Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin 18 Energy justice in Southwest Iran: mitigating the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the fossil fuel sector and building the principles of community-guided development 269 Farzaneh Khayat and Lemir Teron 19 Ensuring the just in just transition: making the case for a community-level perspective 290 Liv Yoon 20 Energy democracy and energy justice in conversation: interconnections, divergences and ways forward 303 Julie L. MacArthur, Cathrine Dyer and Derya Tarhan Afterword 319 Kieran Pradeep Index
