Description
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview of this expanding area that has evolved dramatically over the past decade, away from one largely dominated by structural, political economic treatments on the one hand, and social-psychological studies of individual-level attitudes and behaviors on the other, toward a far more conceptually and methodologically rich and exciting field that brings in, for example, social practices, system complexity, risk theory, social studies of science, and social movements theories. This volume seeks to capture the variety of scales and methods, and range of both conceptual and empirical analyses that define the field, while drawing particular attention to indigenous peoples, poverty, political power, communities and cities. Organized into seven sections, chapters cover social theory and energy-society relations, political-economic perspectives, consumption dynamics, energy equity and energy poverty, energy and publics, energy and governance, as well as emerging trends.
Table of Contents
Part I. Energy and Society: Key Contemporary Dynamics and Theoretical Contributions1. A Time of Change, a Time for Change: Energy-Society Relations in the 21st CenturyDebra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross2. Energy, Climate Change, and Global Governance: The 2015 Paris Agreement in PerspectiveJohn Vogler3.Energy Consumption as Part of Social Practices: The Alternative Approach of Practice TheoryAna Horta4. Analyzing the Socio-Technical Transformation of Energy Systems: The Concept of 'Sustainability Transitions'Harald RohracherPart II. Structural/Political-Economic Perspectives: The Persistent Material and Geopolitical Relevance of Fossil Fuels5. National Energy Signatures: Energetics, Money, and the Structure of the Global SystemJalel Sager6. Energy Markets and TradingDavid Mares7. Raw Materialism and Socioeconomic Change in the Coal IndustryPaul S. Ciccantell and Paul K. Gellert8. The International Political Economy of Eastern European Energy Security: Russia, Ukraine, and the EUJack D. SharplesPart III. Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Consumption Dynamics9. Energy Consumption Trends Across the GlobeRichard York10. Shifts in Energy Consumption Driven by UrbanizationPerry Sadorsky11. Theorizing the Behavioral Dimension of Energy Consumption: Energy Efficiency and the Value-Action GapMarilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool12. Energy Cultures as Sociomaterial Orders of EnergyThomas Pfister and Martin Schweighofer13. The Limits of Household Change: Structural Influences over Individual ConsumptionJanet A. LorenzenPart IV. Is Energy a Human Right? Perspectives on Energy Equity, and Energy Poverty14. Decreasing Supplies, Increasing Risks in Oil DevelopmentChristine Shearer15. Industrializing Countries as the New Energy ConsumersPaulo Manduca, Mauro Berni, Iure Paiva, and José Alexandre Hage16. Energy Poverty, Energy Equity in a World of High Demand and Low SupplyKarl-Michael Brunner, Sylvia Mandl, and Harriet Thomson17. Energy Poverty and Climate Change: Elements to DebateMarcio Giannini Pereira, Neilton Fidelis da Silva, and Marcos A.V. FreitasPart V. Energy and Publics18. Local Responses to Renewable Energy DevelopmentAna Delicado19. User Innovation and Peer Assistance in Small-Scale Renewable Energy TechnologiesSampsa Hyysalo and Jouni Juntunen20. The Role of Media Influence in Shaping Public Energy DialoguesAleksandra WagnerPart VI. Energy (Re)takes Center-Stage in Politics and Motivates Shifts in Governance21. Social Movements and EnergyIon Bogdan Vasi22. Nightmares and Dreams: Contested Framing of Unconventional Fossil FuelsJennifer Dodge23. Oil Opposition: Creating Friction in Energy PoliticsMark CJ Stoddart, Jillian Rene Smith, and Paula Graham24. The Local at the Forefront of Energy Transition: The Example of the Development of Renewable Electricity in Germany and SwedenCyria EmelianoffPart VII. Emerging Trends with the Potential to Generate Significant Shifts in the Energy Society Relationship25. Are We on the Cusp of a Global Renewable Energy Transition?Sybille Roehrkasten26. Technological Optimism in Climate Mitigation: The Case of Carbon Capture and StorageJennie C. Stephens and Nils Markusson27. Exnovation as a Necessary Factor in Successful Energy TransitionsMartin David28. In Closing: From 'energy' to 'Energy'Matthias Gross and Debra J. Davidson
