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  • Global Energy Politics

    by Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Ever since the Industrial Revolution energy has been a key driver of world politics. From the oil crises of the 1970s to today’s rapid expansion of renewable energy sources, every shift in global energy patterns has important repercussions for international relations.In this new book, Thijs Van de Graaf and Benjamin Sovacool uncover the intricate ways in which our energy systems have shaped global ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy

    Fifteen Contentious Questions

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, Scott V. Valentine ...
    A balanced examination of global energy issues.Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy questions from a variety of perspectives, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Vehicle-to-Grid

    A Sociotechnical Transition Beyond Electric Mobility

    by Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book defines and charts the barriers and future of vehicle-to-grid technology: a technology that could dramatically reduce emissions, create revenue, and accelerate the adoption of battery electric cars. This technology connects the electric power grid and the transportation system in ways that will enable electric vehicles to store renewable energy and offer valuable services to the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Energy and Ethics

    Justice and the Global Energy Challenge

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from around the world. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Energy Security, Equality and Justice

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Roman V. Sidortsov, Benjamin R. Jones ...
    This book applies concepts from ethics, justice, and political philosophy to five sets of contemporary energy problems cutting across time, economics, politics, geography, and technology.In doing so, the authors derive two key energy justice principles from modern theories of distributive justice, procedural justice, and cosmopolitan justice. The prohibitive principle states that "energy systems ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Visions of Energy Futures

    Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions
    This book examines the visions, fantasies, frames, discourses, imaginaries, and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems—nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, shale gas, clean coal, smart meters, and electric vehicles—playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use.Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation

    by Björn-Ola Linnér, Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results.This work is on the Global Policy: Next Generation list of six key books for understanding the politics of global climate change. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy

    Edited by Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, Michael T. Klare ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions that deal with energy institutions, trade, transitions, conflict and justice. The chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and markets - including oil and gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security

    Edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.The volume identifies varying definitions and dimensions of energy security, including those that prioritize security of supply and affordability alongside those that emphasize availability, energy efficiency, trade, environmental ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Energy Justice

    Problems, Principles, and Practices

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Michael H. Dworkin ...
    We need new ways of thinking about, and approaching, the world's energy problems. Global energy security and access is one of the central justice issues of our time, with profound implications for happiness, welfare, freedom, equity, and due process. This book combines up-to-date data on global energy security and climate change with fresh perspectives on the meaning of justice in social decision ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

    The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Ira Martina Drupady ...
    This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse ... Read more

    $72.99 USD