Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
Russia’s Foreign Energy Policy: Resources, Actors, Conflicts
1st Edition
By Kenan Aslanli
December 18, 2024
This book examines Russia’s multidimensional foreign energy policy and the emerging and ongoing conflicts with energy-consuming and transit countries. Russia’s Foreign Energy Policy examines whether the interdependence patterns shaped through various channels (such as foreign trade, investment, ...
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form
1st Edition
By Arthur Mason
November 04, 2024
Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium. Throughout the twentieth century, large-scale energy systems in North America and Europe were highly regulated by a national political community whose...
Constitutional Discussions on Nuclear Energy in Germany
1st Edition
By Robert Rybski
June 27, 2024
This book analyses the German constitutional system's responses towards nuclear energy. Robert Rybski begins with a presentation of energy security as a constitutional value and explores how it connects with nuclear energy. He also examines constitutional standards derived from the German ...
Nuclear Power in Stagnation: A Cultural Approach to Failed Expansion
1st Edition
By David Toke, Geoffrey Chun-Fung Chen, Antony Froggatt, Richard Connolly
September 26, 2022
This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries. In order to understand why nuclear development has not met widespread ...
Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany: Energy Policy and Contention
1st Edition
By Andrea Bues
May 06, 2022
Taking a comparative case study approach between Canada and Germany, this book investigates the contrasting response of governments to anti-wind movements. Environmental social movements have been critical players for encouraging the shift towards increased use of renewable energy. However, social...
Wind Power and Public Engagement: Co-operatives and Community Ownership
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini
April 29, 2022
Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance. Based on empirical research, Wind Power and Public Engagement investigates opposition to wind energy and considers the ...
Energy Security and Cooperation in Eurasia: Power, profits and politics
1st Edition
By Ekaterina Svyatets
April 15, 2019
Why are bilateral relations, especially in the area of energy security, so different in the cases of U.S.-Russia, U.S.-Azerbaijan, and Russia-Germany energy deals? Why do some states find common ground despite differences, while others, with all the seemingly favourable conditions, are sinking into...
Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe: Lessons from the EU and the United States
1st Edition
By Tim Boersma
October 12, 2017
Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and ...
Climate Policy Integration into EU Energy Policy: Progress and prospects
1st Edition
By Claire Dupont
April 27, 2017
Climate change is a cross-cutting, long-term, global problem that presents policymakers with many challenges in their efforts to respond to the issue. Integrating climate policy objectives into the elaboration and agreement of policy measures in other sectors represents one promising method for ...
International Energy and Poverty: The emerging contours
1st Edition
Edited
By Lakshman Guruswamy
April 13, 2017
Around 2.8 billion people globally, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor", have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power. This book uniquely integrates the hitherto ...
Our Energy Future: Socioeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Rural America
1st Edition
Edited
By Don Albrecht
November 10, 2016
Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America. Technological developments in horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) nuclear energy, biofuels, wind and solar energy have significantly increased ...
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy: Heat and the city
1st Edition
By David Hawkey, Janette Webb, Heather Lovell, David McCrone, Margaret Tingey, Mark Winskel
December 08, 2015
Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent. Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major ...