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.
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy. A premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy; including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and public participation.
1. Energy democracy: An introduction Part I: Scalar Dimensions of Power
and Governance in Energy Democracy
2. Scalar dimensions of power and
governance in energy democracy: Introduction
3. International energy
governance: Opportunities and challenges for democratic politics
4. Comparing
and contrasting the institutional relationships, regulatory frameworks, and
energy system governance of European and U.S. electric cooperatives
5. Energy
democracy at the scale of Indigenous governance: Indigenous Native American
struggles for democracy, justice, and decolonization
6. Conceptualizing
energy democracy using the multiple streams framework: Actors, public
participation, and scale in energy transitions
7. Part One response Part II:
Discourses of Energy Democracy
8. Discourses of energy democracy:
Introduction
9. Energy security: From security of supply to public
participation
10. The premise and the promise: "Energy poverty,"
capabilities, and the language of moral commitments
11. A brief excursion
into the many scales and voices of renewable energy colonialism
12. Energy
dominance
13. Part Two response Part III: Grassroots and Critical Modes of
Action
14. Grassroots and critical modes of action: Introduction
15. The
state or the citizens for energy democracy? Municipal and cooperative models
in the German energy transition
16. Institutionalizing energy democracy: The
promises and pitfalls of electricity co-operative development
17. A feminist
lens on energy democracy: Redistributing power and resisting oppression
through renewable transformation
18. Energy commons and alternatives to
enclosures of sunshine and wind
19. Part Three response Part IV: Democratic
and Participatory Principles
20. Democratic and participatory principles of
Energy Democracy: Introduction
21. Splitting (over) the atom: Nuclear energy
and democratic conflict
22. Public participation and energy system
transformations
23. The complex relations between justice and participation
in collaborative planning processes for a renewable energy transition
24.
Participation in non-democracies: Rural Thailand as a site of energy
democracy
25. Part Four response Part V: Energy Resource Tensions
26. Energy
resource tensions: Introduction
27. Energy democracy, nuclear power, and
participatory knowledge production about radiation risks
28. A fracked
society: Multi-state media analysis of hydraulic fracturing in the USA
29.
Latin American hydropower sacrifice zones
30. Postcards from the future:
Hawaiis transition to wind and solar energy
31. Part Five response Part VI:
Energy Democracies in Practice
32. Energy democracies in practice:
Introduction
33. Carbon neutral pledges: Public opinions, opportunities, and
challenges for energy democracy
34. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Exploring the
role of universities towards sustainable energy transitions in post-disaster
environments
35. Low carbon energy democracy in the Global South?
36. Energy
democracy in practice: Centering energy sovereignty in rural communities and
Tribal Nations
37. Part Six response
38. Conclusion: The future of energy
democracies
39. Afterword: Energy democracy, Episode 196 of Cultures of
Energy Podcast
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker is an associate professor of environmental and science communication at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), USA.
Danielle Endres is a professor of communication and affiliated faculty in environmental humanities at the University of Utah, USA.
Tarla Rai Peterson is a professor of communication and affiliated faculty in environmental science and engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Stephanie L. Gomez is an assistant professor of communication studies at Western Washington University, USA.
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