Handbook on the geographies of energy / edited by Barry D. Solomon, Kirby E. Calvert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon, Barry D., editor.

Calvert, Kirby E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy industries--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Energy industries.

Power resources--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Power resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Energy and the geographical traditions / Barry D. Solomon and Kirby E. Calvert

Pt. I. Fuels. 2. Energy for the world's kitchens: biomass for survival in the past, present, and future / Matthew J. Taylor ; 3. Bedrock of modernity: coal and its uses past and present / Max D. Woodworth ; 4. The politics of oil in the Anthropocene / Philippe Le Billon and Gavin Bridge ; 5. A horse that has left the barn: expanding geographies of natural gas / Julia H. Haggerty ; 6. Exploring nuclear geographies: from uranium mine to waste facility / Philip Johnstone ; 7. The changing geographies of biorefining / Kirby E. Calvert, Jamie D. Stephen, M. Jean Blair, Laura Cabral, Ryan E. Baxter and Warren E. Mabee ; 8. Alternative transportation fuels: pathways to new geographies / Ethan B. Davis and Kirby E. Calvert

Pt. II. Energies. 9. Hydropower's fluid geographies / Mary Finley-Brook ; 10. Geographical dimensions of wind power / Martin J. Pasqualetti and Barry D. Solomon ; 11. Geographies of solar power / Dustin Mulvaney ; 12. Geography of geothermal energy technologies / Edward P. Louie and Barry D. Solomon ; 13. Geography of marine renewable energy technologies / Peter M. Connor and Helen C.M. Smith

Pt. III. Energy consumption: sectors and end use. 14. Residential energy consumption from a time-geographic perspective / Jenny Palm and Kajsa Ellegård ; 15. Energy efficiency programs in China / Kevin Lo ; 16. Energy and transportation: the need for an energy transition / Christophe Enaux, Philippe Gerber and Helene Haniotou ; 17. Changing human geographies of the electricity grid: shifts of power and control in the renewable energy transition / Stephen M. McCauley and Jennie C. Stephens

Pt. IV. Changing landscapes of energy production, distribution and use. 18. Energy landscapes of less than two degrees global warming / Dan van der Horst ; 19. Europe's energy geographies / Harriet Thomson and Stefan Bouzarovski ; 20. Nodes, networks and inefficiency: understanding Russia's energy landscapes / Jessica K. Graybill ; 21. Changing geographies of energy in North America / Warren E. Mabee, Laura Cabral and Emma Webb ; 22. Brazil's energy outlook / Mauricio T. Tolmasquim and Angela Livino ; 23. Energy disparities and (under)development in sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Stock ; 24. Oil worlds: life and death in Nigeria's petro-state / Michael J. Watts ; 25. India's energy geographies: a critical introduction / Deepti Chatti ; 26. Co-designing energy landscapes: application of participatory mapping and geographic information systems in the exploration of low carbon futures / Sven Stremke and Paolo Picchi ; 27. Urban energy transitions: spatial organization, political contestations and urban governance Ping Huang and Vanesa Castán Broto ; 28. Global energy transitions: a long-term socioeconomic metabolism perspective / Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann and Maria Niedertscheider

Pt. V. Energy at the nexus. 29. Energy, water & food: towards a critical nexus approach / Hayley Leck, Daniel Fitzpatrick and Kevin Burchell ; 30. Energy poverty and vulnerability: a geographical perspective / Neil Simcock and Saska Petrova ; 31. Geographies of energy justice: concepts, challenges and an emerging agenda / Karen Bickerstaff ; 32. Governance at the intersection of health and energy / Arielle Hesse

Pt. VI. Looking forward: conceptual approaches in energy geographies. 33. Political and social ecologies of energy / Karl S. Zimmerer ; 34. Political-industrial ecologies of energy / Jennifer E. Baka ; 35. Critical energy geographies / Conor Harrison and E. Jeffrey Popke ; 36. Community energy: diverse, dynamic, political / Nichole Dusyk ; 37. Energy geography: adopting and adapting resource management perspectives / Bruce Mitchell and Paul Parker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78536-562-2