Description
Energy has become a central concern of many strands of geographical inquiry, from global climate change to the effects of energy decisions on our lives. However, many aspects of the ‘black box’ of relationships at the energy-society interface remain unopened, especially in terms of the spatial underpinnings of energy production and consumption within nations, cities and regions. Debates focusing on the location and nature of energy flows frequently fail to consider the multiple geographical networks that illustrate and explain the distribution of fuels and services around the world.
Providing an integrated perspective on the complex interdependencies between energy and geography, The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies offers a timely conceptual framework to study the multiple facets of energy geography, including security, space and place, planning, environmental science, economics and political science. Illustrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid decision-making pathways in the domains of social justice and environment, this book provides insights that will help move the international community toward greater cooperation, stability, and sustainability.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Stefan Bouzarovski, Martin J. Pasqualetti and Vanesa Castan Broto
Part 1: Energy territories and transitions
Introduction
Stefan Bouzarovski
1. New geographies of the Texas energy revolution
Christian Brannstrom and Matthew Fry
2. A Study of technology and policy in liquid biofuel production in the United States
Peter Kedron and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen
3. New perspectives on an ancient energy resource: biomass, bioenergy, and emerging bio-economies
Kirby Calvert, Kean Birch, Warren Mabee
4. The changing landscape of biofuels: A global review
Barry D. Solomon and J. Brad Barnett
5. Geographical pivots and 21st century Eurasian energy flows: an energy heartland from the Arctic to Central Asia
Jessica K. Graybill
6. Mobile energy and obdurate infrastructure: Distant carbon and the making of modern Europe
Corey Johnson
7. Emerging countries, cities and energy: questioning transitions
Sylvy Jaglin and Éric Verdeil
8. Geographies of energy intermediation and governance in the context of low carbon transitions
Ralitsa Hiteva
Part 2: Energy Landscapes and the Public
Introduction
Martin J. Pasqualetti
9. The re-scaling of energy politics: UK nuclear facility siting in historical context
Karen Bickerstaff and Phil Johnstone
10. Re-framing the shale decision: How do we evaluate regional costs and benefits?
Susan Christopherson
11. Siting dynamics in energy transitions: how generating electricity from natural gas saves cherished landscapes
Richard Cowell
12. Experiencing citizen deliberation over energy infrastructure siting: a mixed method evaluative study
Patrick Devine-Wright and Matthew Cotton
13. Under the curse of coal: mined-out identity, environmental injustice and alternative futures for coal energy landscapes
Bohumil Frantál*
14. Construction of hydropower landscapes through local discourses: a case study from Andalusia (Southern Spain)
Marina Frolova
15. Finding locations for endurably objectionable energy-related facilities: The CLAMP policy
Michael R. Greenberg, Molly Coon, Matthew Camp and Jennifer Whytlaw
Part 3: Relational perspectives and the Politics of Energy
Introduction
Vanesa Castan Broto
16. Governing transitions in energy demand
Catherine Butler and Karen Parkhill
17. Embedding energy transitions in the community
Sara Fuller
18. Energy and place-making in informal settlements: a view from Cape Town
Scott Jiusto and Stephen M. McCauley
19. The energy geographies of incremental infrastructures in Ga Mashie, Accra
Jonathan Silver
20. Exhaustible-renewable wind power
Alain Nadaï and Olivier Labussière
21. Conflictive energy landscapes: Petrocasas and the petrochemical revolution in Venezuela
Elvin Delgado
22. A Luta Continua: Contending high and low carbon energy transitions in Mozambique
Joshua Kirshner
23. The politics of forests: Community dimensions of energy resource use
Saska Petrova
