ABSTRACT
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy.
With protests over fossil fuels and controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies, democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement. Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. This volume defines energy democracy as both a social movement and an academic area of study and examines it through a social science and humanities lens, explaining key concepts and reflecting state-of-the-art research. The collection is comprised of six parts:
1 Scalar Dimensions of Power and Governance in Energy Democracy
2 Discourses of Energy Democracy
3 Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action
4 Democratic and Participatory Principles
5 Energy Resource Tensions
6 Energy Democracies in Practice
The vision of this handbook is explicitly transdisciplinary and global, including contributions from interdisciplinary international scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy will be the premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy, including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and public participation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
Scalar dimensions of power and governance in energy democracy
chapter 3|14 pages
International energy governance
chapter 5|15 pages
Energy democracy at the scale of Indigenous governance
chapter 6|16 pages
Conceptualizing energy democracy using the multiple streams framework
part II|66 pages
Discourses of energy democracy
chapter 10|14 pages
The premise and the promise
part III|65 pages
Grassroots and critical modes of action
chapter 15|14 pages
The state or the citizens for energy democracy?
chapter 16|15 pages
Institutionalizing energy democracy
chapter 17|13 pages
A feminist lens on energy democracy
part IV|65 pages
Democratic and participatory principles
part V|71 pages
Energy resource tensions
chapter 28|16 pages
A fracked society
chapter 30|16 pages
Postcards from the future
part VI|87 pages
Energy democracies in practice