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Energy democracies for sustainable futures /

Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures explores how our dominant carbon and nuclear energy assemblages shape conceptions of participation, risk, and in/securities, and how they might be reengineered to deliver justice and democratic participation in transitioning energy systems. Chapters assess...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nadesan, Majia Holmer, 1965- (Editor ), Pasqualetti, Martin J., 1945- (Editor ), Keahey, Jennifer (Editor ), Sovacool, Benjamin K. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, United Kingdom : Elsevier Academic Press, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Energy Democracies for Sustainable futures
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Contributors
  • Editors biographies
  • Contributors biography
  • Foreword
  • References
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction to collection
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 From prehistoric energy consumption to modern energy politics
  • 3 Energy security and concentrated energy ownership and decision-making
  • 4 Rise of renewables and challenges of energy democratization
  • 5 The social relations of energy governance
  • 6 Directions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Part I Imaginaries
  • Introduction to Part I: Energy imaginaries
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Knowledges
  • 3 Futures
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Theme 1 Knowledges
  • Chapter 1 Serving in the public interest: Samuel Insull and the public service utility imaginary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A moral utility-Constructing the public service company
  • 3 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Governance and sustainability in distributed energy systems
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Overcoming centralized systems
  • 3 Governance of distributed energy systems
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Energy democracy's relationship to ecology
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 An energy democracy framework
  • 3 The challenge of integrating ecology/more-than-human into energy democracy
  • 4 Refining the framework
  • 5 Conclusions and future directions
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Utopias and dystopias of renewable energy imaginaries
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Imagining renewable energy
  • 3 Performing and practicing renewable energy imaginaries
  • 4 Renewable energy and the cultivation of new subjects
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Technoregions of insurrection: Decentralizing energy infrastructures and manifesting change at scale
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 From decentralism to technoregionalism
  • 3 Technology, humanity, and ecology
  • 4 Committing to regionalism
  • 5 Technoregions of insurrection
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Assemblages of energy and equity: Rearticulating Illich
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Conviviality and counterfoil research
  • 3 Assemblages
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Theme 2 Futures
  • Chapter 7 Re-imagining energy-society relations: An interactive framework for social movement-based energy-society transfo ...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Beyond technical goal setting: What makes just and democratic energy transitions possible?
  • 3 Toward a political economy of transformative change in modern energy
  • 3.1 Shifting to an energy-as-commons approach
  • 3.2 Shifting to a community energy governance approach
  • 4 Re-imagination experiments: Sustainable Energy Utility and One Less Nuclear Power Plant initiative
  • 4.1 Experiment 1: Sustainable Energy Utility