Energy Security

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

Edited by Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman

Energy Security problems are common: there have been major difficulties in California, New Zealand, Brazil, France, and (most recently) in the Eastern USA and Canada.
This book is unique in covering what the state, through law, requires energy providers to do in order to prevent such crises.

Energy Security

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

Edited by Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman

Description

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must also be considered.

Part I commences with an essential introductory chapter which defines energy security and sets forth the key issues and themes of the book. There then follow several cross-cutting chapters which include sceptical analysis of energy security claims from an environmental perspective and a broader geopolitical analysis of energy security.

Part II examines a wide variety of international, regional, and national approaches to energy security issues. Energy security concerns differ considerably from country to country, however most of the chapters examining particular nations provide an economic and historical context of their energy security concerns, followed by a detailed analysis of the legal provisions relating to each of the main energy sectors (oil, gas, coal, electricity, nuclear, and renewable energies). This entails examination of regulation, organization, and planning for security and other purposes. In a number of cases, energy security law is shaped by other factors such as market liberalization, environmental protection, and competition policy.

Part III comprises two final chapters, the first contrasting the various national and regional approaches and analysing cross-cutting issues, whilst the concluding chapter forecasts future trends in the legal regulation of energy security.

Energy Security

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

Edited by Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman

Acknowledgements
Summary Table of Contents
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
1:Introduction, Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL APPROACHES
2:International Energy Security, Catherine Redgwell
3:Energy Security and the Development of International Energy Markets, Andrei Konoplianik
4:Shared Competences and Multi-Faceted Concepts-European Legal Framework for Security of Supply, Leigh Hancher and Sally Janssen
5:Regional and National Frameworks for Energy Security in Africa, Yinka Omorogbe
NATIONAL APPROACHES
6:Security of Supply and Control of Terrorism: Energy Security in the United States in the Early Twenty-First Century, Donald N. Zillman and Michael Bigos
7:Canada's Voluntary, Market-Based Approach to Energy Security, Alastair R. Lucas
8:Energy Security and Energy Sovereignty in Mexico, José Juan Gonzáles Márquez
9:The Andes: So Much Energy, So Little SecurityThe Andes: So Much Energy, So Little Security, Lila Barrera-Hernández
10:Energy Security as Denmark's Heavy-Handed Regulation Loosens, Anita Rønne
11:Re-Regulating Energy Supply in the Netherlands: A Balancing Act between Energy Security and Energy Liberalization, Martha M. Roggenkamp
12:Norway: Security of Supply in Liberalized Energy Sectors: A New Role for Regulation, Ulf Hammer
13:Energy Security and Conflict with Other Values: The Case of Germany, Gunther Kühne
14:Security, Continuity, and Regularity of Energy Supply: The Case of Spain, Iñigo del Guayo
15:Reaching the Limits of What the Market Will Provide: Energy Security in New Zealand, Barry Barton
16:Singapore: National Energy Security and Regional Cooperation, Lye Lin-Heng and Chang Youngho
17:Energy Security and Japan: The Role of International Law, Domestic Law, and Diplomacy, Kazuhiro Nakatani
OVERVIEW
18:The 'Fear Factor': Why We Should Not Allow Energy Security Rhetoric to Trump Sustainable Development, Susan Y. Noé and George (Rock) Pring
19:Singapore, Lye Lin Heng and Chang Youngho
20:Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century, Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman
Index

Energy Security

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

Edited by Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman

Author Information

Edited by Barry Barton, Professor, School of Law, University of Waikato, Catherine Redgwell, from March 2004, Professor of International Law, University College London, Anita Rønne, Associate Professor in Energy Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, and Donald N. Zillman, Godfrey Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law

Contributors:

Barry Barton
Catherine Redgwell
Anita Rønne
Donald N. Zillman
Thomas Wälde
Andrei Konoplianik
Leigh Hancher
Rock Pring
Susan Noé
Michael T. Bigos
Al Lucas
José Juan González Márquez
Lila Barrera Hernández
Martha Roggenkamp
Ulf Hammer
Gunther Kühne
Iñigo del Guayo
Yinka Omorogbe
Lye Lin Heng
Chang Youngho
Kasuhiro Nakatani

Energy Security

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment

Edited by Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Rønne, and Donald N. Zillman

Reviews and Awards

"... well-written, scholarly collection of contributed chapters brimming with practical and intellectual insight; and likely to be of enduring value ... this book will be an important source of guidance and clarification for energy policy-makers around the world at a time when the distinction between energy law and policy has never been more blurred." - Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law