Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor (Mit Press) - Softcover

Aklin, Michael; Bayer, Patrick; Harish, S.P.; Urpelainen, Johannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262535866 ISBN 13: 9780262535861

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.

About this title

About the Author:

Michaël Aklin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and coauthor (with Johannes Urpelainen) of Renewables (MIT Press).

Review:

Energy poverty is a persistent but largely invisible affliction affecting the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women and children. This book does it all, elegantly describing the problem, presenting cases of success and failure, and critically distilling lessons for development practitioners and scholars. It offers the type of fresh thinking and innovative solutions so rarely seen, but oh-so-urgently needed.

―Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex; coauthor of Climate Change and Global Energy Security and Global Energy Justice; coeditor of Energy Poverty

Global energy poverty is more than just a technical and economic challenge. The authors provide a much-needed political economy perspective in this book and rightly emphasize the important role that the state plays in any solution to this problem.

―Hisham Zerriffi, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; author of Rural Electrification: Strategies for Distributed Generation

In 2018 just under a billion people lack access to sustainable energy. Another two billion lack access to reliable energy. Reliable, affordable, and clean energy is essential for sustainable development; that so many live without it constrains progress. Policy matters as never before. With this book, the authors show a pathway to results.

―Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative (SEforALL)

About this edition

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262535866
• ISBN 13: 9780262535861
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326