Energy and Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge (Energy, Climate and the Environment) - Hardcover

Sovacool, Benjamin K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137298642 ISBN 13: 9781137298645

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Visiting Associate Professor at Vermont Law School, USA, where he manages the Energy Security and Justice Program at their Institute for Energy & the Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to renewable electricity generators and distributed generation, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. He is the author, editor, co-author, or co-editor of 13 books on energy security and climate change issues in addition to hundreds of peer-reviewed academic studies.

Review:

“Sovacool writes with the authority of an expert, has amassed an impressive list of references, and makes his points quantitatively with numerous graphs and tables. ... Overall, Sovacool has presented his readers ... with well-documented ethical challenges stemming from our prodigious energy consumption. Earth would be a better place for all its species if we adhered to Sovacool’s eight principles, and his well-documented case studies point the way.” (Richard Wolfson, Technology and Culture, Vol. 56, April, 2015

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137298642
• ISBN 13: 9781137298645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300