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edoccha_9960982391502883
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1 online resource (404 pages)
ISBN:
0-12-822797-4
Content:
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.
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Intro -- Energy Democracies for Sustainable futures -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Editors biographies -- Contributors biography -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction to collection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From prehistoric energy consumption to modern energy politics -- 3 Energy security and concentrated energy ownership and decision-making -- 4 Rise of renewables and challenges of energy democratization -- 5 The social relations of energy governance -- 6 Directions -- References -- Further reading -- Part I Imaginaries -- Introduction to Part I: Energy imaginaries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Knowledges -- 3 Futures -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Theme 1 Knowledges -- Chapter 1 Serving in the public interest: Samuel Insull and the public service utility imaginary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A moral utility-Constructing the public service company -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Governance and sustainability in distributed energy systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overcoming centralized systems -- 3 Governance of distributed energy systems -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Energy democracy's relationship to ecology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An energy democracy framework -- 3 The challenge of integrating ecology/more-than-human into energy democracy -- 4 Refining the framework -- 5 Conclusions and future directions -- References -- Chapter 4 Utopias and dystopias of renewable energy imaginaries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Imagining renewable energy -- 3 Performing and practicing renewable energy imaginaries -- 4 Renewable energy and the cultivation of new subjects -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Technoregions of insurrection: Decentralizing energy infrastructures and manifesting change at scale -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From decentralism to technoregionalism.
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3 Technology, humanity, and ecology -- 4 Committing to regionalism -- 5 Technoregions of insurrection -- References -- Chapter 6 Assemblages of energy and equity: Rearticulating Illich -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conviviality and counterfoil research -- 3 Assemblages -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Theme 2 Futures -- Chapter 7 Re-imagining energy-society relations: An interactive framework for social movement-based energy-society transfo ... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Beyond technical goal setting: What makes just and democratic energy transitions possible? -- 3 Toward a political economy of transformative change in modern energy -- 3.1 Shifting to an energy-as-commons approach -- 3.2 Shifting to a community energy governance approach -- 4 Re-imagination experiments: Sustainable Energy Utility and One Less Nuclear Power Plant initiative -- 4.1 Experiment 1: Sustainable Energy Utility -- 4.2 Experiment 2: Seoul's "One Less Nuclear Power Plant" initiative -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 Democratic governance of fossil fuel decline -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Living examples of democratic decision-making mechanisms -- 2.1 Local mechanisms -- 2.1.1 Participatory budgeting -- 2.1.2 Worker-owned cooperatives -- 2.1.3 Water districts -- 2.1.4 Community fuel banks and energy trusts -- 2.2 Regional mechanisms and beyond -- 2.2.1 Public regional planning and the Tennessee Valley Authority -- 2.2.2 Rationing boards -- 2.2.3 Indigenous energy sovereignty -- 2.2.4 International trade and distribution -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9 Decentralizing energy systems: Political power and shifting power relations in energy ownership -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Decarbonization and decentralization of electricity -- 3 Political power in electricity systems -- 3.1 Lobbying and elite access -- 3.2 Information control -- 3.3 Employment.
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3.4 Media and social influence -- 4 The state of shifting power -- 5 Decentralization and democracy -- 6 Conclusion: What does this mean going forward? -- References -- Chapter 10 Democratic divergence and the landscape of community solar in the United States -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining community solar -- 3 Energy democracy and community solar -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11 The emerging energy future(s) of renewable power and electrochemistry: -- Advancing or undermining energy democracy? -- 1 Reading energy futures through electrochemical interventions -- 2 Defining electrochemical interventions for decarbonization -- 3 Core assumptions of electrochemical interventions for decarbonization -- 4 Emerging energy futures -- References -- Chapter 12 The future of energy ownership -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why ownership matters to democracy -- 3 The future of solar ownership -- 4 The intricacies and implications of energy ownership -- 5 The future of energy and democracy -- 6 So how do we decide? -- References -- Part II Transitions -- Introduction to Part II: Energy Futures -- Theme 1 Organizing -- Chapter 13 Energies of resistance? Conceptualizing resistance in and through energy democratization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy/democracy -- 3 Democratization/resistance -- 4 Resistance/materiality -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 The role of ownership and governance in democratizing energy: Comparing public, private, and civil society init ... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy democracy: Conceptualizing ownership and engagement -- 3 Ownership types in England: Private and civic -- 3.1 Civic energy developments-Co-ops and BenComs -- 3.2 Private energy developments-Limited companies and municipal developments -- 3.3 Comparison -- 4 Governance models, voting rights, and AGMs -- 4.1 Co-operative governance: Shareholder voting and AGMs.
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4.2 Corporate governance: Shareholder voting and AGMs -- 5 Conclusion: The role of ownership and governance for energy democracy -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15 Lessons from electric cooperatives: Evolving participatory governance practices -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cooperatives and member participation -- 3 Institutional robustness, instrumental values, and civil society -- 4 Changing opportunities and expectations for member participation -- 5 Challenges and opportunities -- References -- Chapter 16 Bringing democratic transparency to Karachi's electric sector -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The problem of electricity supply in Pakistan -- 3 Democratic transparency -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17 Energy literacy: Democratizing energy access initiatives in Papua New Guinea -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context -- 3 Papua New Guinea -- 4 The process -- 5 Outcomes -- 6 Aiding the transition to energy democracy -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Theme 2 Communities -- Chapter 18 A just development energy transition in India? -- 1 Energy transition woes -- 2 A just development energy transition in India -- 2.1 Recognitional justice -- 2.2 Procedural justice -- 2.3 Distributional justice -- 3 Just energy democracy -- References -- Chapter 19 Community adaptation to microgrid alternative energy sources: The case of Puerto Rico -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An overview of Puerto Rico's power grid and natural challenges -- 3 The rise of the microgrid -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 20 Energy democracy movements in Japan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Renewables as social relations -- 3 Renewables as people's power -- 4 Fukushima in global networks of community power -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 21 Participatory cartography as a means to facilitate democratic governance of offshore wind power in Brazil☆.
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1 Introduction and background -- 2 Materials and methods -- 3 Findings and discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 22 Energy democracy cooperatives: Opportunities and challenges -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The lived reality of worker cooperatives -- 3 Cooperatives and communities -- 4 Challenges cooperatives face -- 5 How to run a successful cooperative -- 6 Cooperatives to change society -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Risks -- Introduction to Part III: Energy risks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Anachronistic assemblages -- References -- Theme 1 Assemblages -- Chapter 23 Situating energy justice: Storytelling risk and resilience in the Navajo Nation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An attorney's observations: Energy landscapes and lines of connection -- 3 An ethnographer's observations: The viral pandemic in a deeper historical context -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 24 Will electro-mobility encourage injustices? The case of lithium production in the Argentine Puna -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and methods -- 3 Results and discussion -- 3.1 Lithium production in the Argentine Puna -- 3.2 Justice dimensions of lithium production -- 3.3 Toward a just transition to electro-mobility -- 4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 25 The limits of authoritarian energy governance: Energy, democracy and public contestation in Turkey -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The multiple manifestations of authoritarian energy governance -- 2.1 Socio-metabolic intensification -- 2.2 Expanding energy frontiers -- 2.3 Transforming landscapes -- 3 The emergence of new energy politics via socio-ecological conflicts and resistance -- 4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 26 Hazard or survival: Politics of nuclear energy in Ukraine and Belorussia through the lens of energy democracy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
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2.1 Public health consequences.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Nadesan, Majia Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology,c2022 ISBN 9780128227961
Language:
English
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