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In Search of Good Energy Policy Marc Ozawa

In Search of Good Energy Policy By Marc Ozawa

In Search of Good Energy Policy by Marc Ozawa


Summary

This volume presents a dialogue on the relevance of multi-disciplinary research and offers a look at why science and technology cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding how multidisciplinary research and collaboration is essential to crafting good energy policy.

In Search of Good Energy Policy Summary

In Search of Good Energy Policy by Marc Ozawa

Drawing on political science, economics, philosophy, theology, social anthropology, history, management studies, law, and other subject areas,In Search of Good Energy Policybrings together leading academics from across the social sciences and humanities to offer an innovative look at why science and technology, and the type of quantification they champion, cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making in the future. Featuring world-class researchers from the University of Cambridge and other leading universities around the world, this innovative book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue in which scientists and practitioners reach across institutional divides to offer their perspectives on the relevance of multi-disciplinary research for 'real world' application. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding how multidisciplinary research and collaboration is essential to crafting good energy policy.

About Marc Ozawa

Marc Ozawa is an associated researcher of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge. His current research examines the role of trust in international relations, NATO-Russian relations and Russian, East European and Eurasian affairs. Jonathan Chaplin is a specialist in political theology and a member of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy' Project. He was Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, based in Cambridge, from 2006 to 2017. Currently an independent scholar, he is a member of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian think-tank Cardus and a consultant researcher for the London-based religion and society think-tank Theos. Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Cambridge Judge Business School in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is chair of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy' Grand Challenge initiative of Energy@Cambridge and an Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG). David Reiner is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on energy and climate change politics, policy, economics, regulation and public attitudes, with a particular focus on social license to operate. Paul Warde is a Reader in Environmental History at the University of Cambridge, previously having been Professor of Environmental History at the University of East Anglia. His previous publications include The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.15001870 (2018); The Environment: A History of the Idea (2018); and Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries (2013).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Marc Ozawa, Michael Pollitt, David Reiner, Jonathan Chaplin and Paul Warde; Part I. Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: 2. Political science and energy David M. Reiner; 3. Economics the proper valuation of security and environment David Newbery; 4. Good energy: philosophical perspectives Tim Lewens; 5. Public theology 'grounded': an energy policy rooted in human flourishing Jonathan Chaplin; 6. Anthropology and energy policy; 7. History: a long view? Paul Warde; 8. Management from the drawing board to successful delivery Jim Platt; 9. Legal aspects of energy policy Tibisay Morgandi and Jorge E. Vinuales; Part II. Cases and Multi-Disciplinary Responses: 10. The ethics of nuclear energy: its past, present and future Behnam Taebi and Sabine Roeser; 11. Fukushima and German energy policy 20052015/16 Christian Growitsch and Felix Hoffler; 12. Rethinking the environmental state: an economic history of the Swedish environmental Kuznets curve for carbon Magnus Lindmark; 13. Fossil fuel systems to 100% renewable energy based smart energy systems: lessons from the case of Denmark, 19732017 Frede Hvelplund, Sren Djrup and Karl Sperling; 14. A political economy of carbon capture and storage: how interests have outstripped economics in shaping the evolution of a technology David M. Reiner; 15. Scaling clean energy for data centers: trends, problems, solutions Atif Ansar, Dan Madrigal and Seth Collins; 16. Public participation in the context of energy activities: the role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli; 17. Biofuel energy, ancestral time, and the destruction of Borneo: an ethical perspective Michael S. Northcott; 18. From inspiration to implementation: Laudato Si', public theology and the demands of energy policy Jonathan Chaplin; 19. Introduction to multi-disciplinary approaches Marc Ozawa and Michael Pollitt; 20. A comparative study of air pollution trends in historical London and contemporary Beijing Jacqueline Lam, Yang Han, Shan-Shan Wang, Victor O. K. Li, Michael Pollitt, and Paul Warde; 21. The power of Siberia: a Eurasian pipeline policy 'good' for whom? 22. Responses and final thoughts.

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GOR011238693
9781108455466
1108455468
In Search of Good Energy Policy by Marc Ozawa
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-06-20
388
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