Handbook on Energy Justice

by Stefan Bouzarovski (Editor), Sara Fuller (Editor), Tony G. Reames (Editor)

Overview

Offering a unique and critical perspective on energy justice, this Handbook delves into an emerging field of inquiry encapsulating multiple strands of scholarship on energy systems. Covering key topics including generation, transmission, distribution and demand, it explores fundamental questions surrounding policy, climate change, security and social movements.

The Handbook illuminates the rapidly expanding and diversifying scholarly domains where energy justice has developed to date. Chapters provide an overview on energy justice issues across a range of socio-technical and political contexts, including differences along lines of race, gender, age, geography, housing, socio-economic status and infrastructure. The Handbook further incorporates non-Western perspectives to expand the transitional vocabulary and frameworks of energy justice.

Grounded in empirically rich case studies from across the world to support nuanced framings, situated methods and informed policy, this Handbook will be of interest to students of development, human geography, environmental policy and politics. It will also be useful to practitioners working in international organisations and agencies working in development and the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839102950
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	05/10/2023
Series:	Elgar Handbooks in Energy, the Environment and Climate Change
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Stefan Bouzarovski, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, UK, Sara Fuller, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia and Tony G. Reames, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, US

Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook on Energy Justice 1
Sara Fuller and Stefan Bouzarovski
1 Whole-systems energy justice 13
Adolfo Mejía-Montero and Kirsten E. H. Jenkins
2 Transport and energy justice 25
Karen Lucas and Muhammed Adeel
3 Energy justice and flexibility 40
Michael Fell, Gareth Powells, Charlotte Johnson, Juan Pablo Cárdenas Álvarez, Juan Manuel España Forero and Santiago Ortega Arango
4 Energy justice and health 65
Kimberley O’Sullivan
5 Energy justice and development 79
Joshua Kirshner and Jessica Omukuti
6 Rural energy justice 94
Conor Harrison and Shelley Welton
7 Energy justice and housing 112
Sergio Tirado Herrero
8 Tracing the roots of energy justice in action: environmental justice, climate justice, and the New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act 131
Raya Salter
9 Combating power imbalance and arbitrariness through procedural energy justice 144
Roman Sidortsov and Corey Katz
10 Quantifying energy justice 158
Benjamin C. McLellan and Andrew J. Chapman
11 Policy barriers and the dynamics of energy justice 175
Iain Todd
12 Energy justice and gender 188
Caitlin Robinson, Neil Simcock and Saska Petrova
13 Energy justice across the life-course 201
Gordon Waitt
14 Energy justice, modernity and transitions: more-than-modern energy for all in the Global South 213
Paul Munro
15 The right to energy: Learning from struggles for food, water, and rights to nature 226
Tristan Partridge
16 Towards more pluralistic energy justice frameworks 240
Sandra Jazmin Barragán-Contreras
17 Energy justice as a new communal project? Community energy systems and the energy access gap 253
Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin
18 Energy justice in Southwest Iran: mitigating the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the fossil fuel sector and building the principles of community-guided development 269
Farzaneh Khayat and Lemir Teron
19 Ensuring the just in just transition: making the case for a community-level perspective 290
Liv Yoon
20 Energy democracy and energy justice in conversation: interconnections, divergences and ways forward 303
Julie L. MacArthur, Cathrine Dyer and Derya Tarhan
Afterword 319
Kieran Pradeep

Index

Editorial Reviews

'The Handbook on Energy Justice offers a rich collection that both consolidates the field and pushes its boundaries in new and interesting ways, drawing together multiple and divergent accounts of the possibilities and challenges of energy justice as a concept and call to action. A much-needed compass for our challenging times.’

Harriet Bulkeley