Screen LibraryHandbook on the geographies of energy /
"This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research f...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research frontiers for the changing geographies of energy worldwide. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it serves to answer a range of questions and provide the reader with conceptual and methodological foundations."--Page [4] of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 544 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781785365614 1785365614 |
| Index Number: | HD9502 |
| CLC: | F407.2-62 |
| Call Number: | F407.2-62/H236-1 |
| Contents: |
Energy and the geographical traditions / Fuels. Energy for the world's kitchens: biomass for survival in the past, present, and future / Bedrock of modernity: coal and its uses past and present / The politics of oil in the Anthropocene / A horse that has left the barn: expanding geographies of natural gas / Exploring nuclear geographies: from uranium mine to waste facility / The changing geographies of biorefining / Alternative transportation fuels: pathways to new geographies / Energies. Hydropower's fluid geographies / Geographical dimensions of wind power / Geographies of solar power / Geography of geothermal energy technologies / Geography of marine renewable energy technologies / Energy consumption: sectors and end use. Residential energy consumption from a time-geographic perspective / Energy efficiency programs in China / Energy and transportation: the need for an energy transition / Changing human geographies of the electricity grid: shifts of power and control in the renewable energy transition / Changing landscapes of energy production, distribution and use. Energy landscapes of less than two degrees global warming / Europe's energy geographies / Nodes, networks and inefficiency: understanding Russia's energy landscapes / Changing geographies of energy in North America / Brazil's energy outlook / Energy disparities and (under)development in sub-Saharan Africa / Oil worlds: life and death in Nigeria's petro-state / India's energy geographies: a critical introduction / Co-designing energy landscapes: application of participatory mapping and geographic information systems in the exploration of low carbon futures / Urban energy transitions: spatial organization, political contestations and urban governance Global energy transitions: a long-term socioeconomic metabolism perspective / Energy at the nexus. Energy, water & food: towards a critical nexus approach / Energy poverty and vulnerability: a geographical perspective / Geographies of energy justice: concepts, challenges and an emerging agenda / Governance at the intersection of health and energy / Looking forward: conceptual approaches in energy geographies. Political and social ecologies of energy / Political-industrial ecologies of energy / Critical energy geographies / Community energy: diverse, dynamic, political / Energy geography: adopting and adapting resource management perspectives / |