Energy and Ethics
Subtitle: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 08, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781137298652
Description: "Concepts from justice and ethics can significantly inform energy decision-makers. Benjamin K. Sovacool introduces readers to the injustices and insecurities inherent in the global energy system before presenting an energy justice conceptual framework consisting of availability, affordability, due process, good governance, prudence, intergenerational equity, intragenerational equity, and responsibility. He showcases the application of these principles to eight real-world case studies involving national energy planning in Denmark, the Warm Front program in the United Kingdom, the World Bank's Inspection Panel, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, São Thomé e Príncipe's Natural Resource Fund, solar energy in Bangladesh, climate change adaptation efforts in least developed countries, and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative in Ecuador"--
Notes: Source title: Energy and Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge (Energy, Climate and the Environment)