Full Description
By providing a new qualitative analysis of policy coherence and integration between energy, security, and defence policies between 2006 and 2023, this book analyzes the impacts of policy interplay on energy transition through the lens of sustainability transitions research, security studies, energy security and geopolitics, and policy studies. The security aspects discussed range from national defence and geopolitics, to questions of energy security, positive security, and just transitions. Findings show that the policy interface around the energy-security nexus has often been incoherent. There is a lack of integration between security aspects, leading to ineffective policies from the perspective of decarbonisation and national security, which is evident in the European energy crisis following the war between Russia and Ukraine. This book is intended for researchers and experts interested in the energy transition and its connections to security and defence policies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
1. Introduction: the challenge of zero-carbon energy transitions and national security; 2. Understanding security in the context of sustainability transitions; 3. Energy security and geopolitics of energy transition; 4. A conceptual-analytical approach to examine security in sustainability transitions, and policy interplay; 5. Estonia - long-term energy independence and oil shale; 6. Finland: ambivalent links between energy and security; 7. Norway - contradiction of oil for export and fully renewable electricity supply; 8. From oil to wind under a devolved Scottish government and new pressures for UK energy security; 9. Insights into zero-carbon energy, sustainability transitions and security; References; Index.
