Energy and Ethics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Availability and Danish Energy Policy

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4. Affordability and Fuel Poverty in England

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5. Due Process and the World Bank’s Inspection Panel

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6. Information and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

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7. Prudence and São Tomé e Príncipe’s Oil Revenue Management Law

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8. Intergenerational Equity and Solar Energy in Bangladesh

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9. Intragenerational Equity and Climate Change Adaptation

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10. Responsibility and Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative

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11. Conclusion — Conceptualizing Energy Justice

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12. Back Matter

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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.

• climate
• climate change
• energy policy
• law
• Policy
• research
• solar energy
• Environmental Geography

“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

• Vermont Law School, USA

  Benjamin K. Sovacool

• Aarhus University, Denmark

  Benjamin K. Sovacool

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.

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