Women and the Energy Revolution in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Asia’s Energy Transition: “Leapfrogging” Stages

   • Reihana Mohideen

   Pages 1-7

3. Gender-Powered Approaches

   • Reihana Mohideen

   Pages 9-26

4. Technologies “Disrupting” Gender Relations?

   • Reihana Mohideen

   Pages 27-38

5. Gender-Inclusive Energy: The Nepal Case

   • Reihana Mohideen

   Pages 39-58

6. Some Concluding Comments

   • Reihana Mohideen

   Pages 59-67

7. Back Matter

   Pages 69-84

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This book examines the low-carbon energy transition taking place in developing Asia, in the context of persisting social and gender inequalities, the threat of climate change which has necessitated the decarbonisation of industry, and examines how developing Asia can ‘leap-frog’ the carbon-emitting stages that more developed economies have passed through, while simultaneously ‘leap-frogging’ social and gender equity gaps. The book uses the concept of ‘disruptive technologies’, an area of study that assesses the potential of certain technologies to disrupt the status quo and the concept of socio-technical frameworks, where social considerations are factored in to engineering systems and models. Using case studies and methodologies drawn from interdisciplinary approaches to engineering, and from development studies, science and technology studies and feminist approaches, it assesses how the low-carbon energy transition potentially provides poor women in developing Asia the opportunity toget on board at the early phase of these changes and influence and even transform their societies and lives.

• energy technologies
• social inclusion
• gender and energy
• energy in India
• energy transitions
• inclusive development
• women’s welfare
• gender equity
• social and technical relations
• energy access
• energy systems modelling

“Dr Mohideen’s work makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the transformative benefits that can be achieved for gender equity and social inclusion through renewable energy programs...if we take the right steps.” (Associate Professor Greg Adamson, University of Melbourne, and former President, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology)

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

  Reihana Mohideen

Dr Reihana Mohideen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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