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Author Nadesan, Majia

Title Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures
Published San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (404 p.)
Contents 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
4.2 Experiment 2: Seoul's "One Less Nuclear Power Plant" initiative
Form Electronic book
Author Pasqualetti, Martin J
Keahey, Jennifer
ISBN 9780128227978
0128227974