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Energy and Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge by Benjamin K. Sovacool (review)

Paul Hirt
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
- Vol. 57, Iss: 4, pp 1029-1030
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This article is published in Technology and Culture.The article was published on 2016-01-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic Justice.

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Energy justice and sustainability transitions in Mozambique

TL;DR: In this article, a situated, particularistic analysis of energy transitions in Mozambique is presented to open up a dialogue between theories of energy justice and post-colonial critiques of development.
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Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been examined for improving governance and economic development outcomes in its member countries using non-parametric tests, regression analysis, and data from the World Bank.
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Community Energy Companies in the UK: A Potential Model for Sustainable Development in “Local” Energy?

Séverine Saintier
- 29 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study with six energy community organizations in the South West of England in order to evaluate their role and identity and assess whether this exemplar of "the rise of a social sphere in regulation" could be used as a model for a more sustainable social approach to the governance of economic relations.
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Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how solar energy infrastructures co-evolve with and are enacted and acted upon by not only technical but also regulatory and institutional factors, as well as sociocultural contexts.
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Working with bacteria and putting bacteria to work: The biopolitics of synthetic biology for energy in the United Kingdom

TL;DR: Results from ethnographic research with synthetic biologists who are challenged with balancing the curiosity-driven and intrinsically fulfilling scientific task of working with bacteria, alongside the policy-driven task of putting bacteria to work for extrinsic economic gains are presented.
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Energy justice and sustainability transitions in Mozambique

TL;DR: In this article, a situated, particularistic analysis of energy transitions in Mozambique is presented to open up a dialogue between theories of energy justice and post-colonial critiques of development.
Journal ArticleDOI

Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been examined for improving governance and economic development outcomes in its member countries using non-parametric tests, regression analysis, and data from the World Bank.
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Community Energy Companies in the UK: A Potential Model for Sustainable Development in “Local” Energy?

Séverine Saintier
- 29 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study with six energy community organizations in the South West of England in order to evaluate their role and identity and assess whether this exemplar of "the rise of a social sphere in regulation" could be used as a model for a more sustainable social approach to the governance of economic relations.
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Solar photovoltaic energy infrastructures, land use and sociocultural context in Portugal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how solar energy infrastructures co-evolve with and are enacted and acted upon by not only technical but also regulatory and institutional factors, as well as sociocultural contexts.
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Working with bacteria and putting bacteria to work: The biopolitics of synthetic biology for energy in the United Kingdom

TL;DR: Results from ethnographic research with synthetic biologists who are challenged with balancing the curiosity-driven and intrinsically fulfilling scientific task of working with bacteria, alongside the policy-driven task of putting bacteria to work for extrinsic economic gains are presented.