The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society
Edited by Dr. Debra J. Davidson and Dr. Matthias Gross
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Edited by Dr. Debra J. Davidson, Professor, University of Alberta, and Edited by Dr. Matthias Gross, Professor, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her primary areas of teaching and research include the social dimensions of energy food systems, with special interest in the impacts on, and the observed and potential institutional transformation in, energy and food systems due to climate change. She is co-author of Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity, with Mike Gismondi (2011), and co-editor of Consuming Sustainability: Critical Perspectives on Socio-ecological Change, with Kirstin Hatt (2005).
Matthias Gross is Professor of Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, and by joint appointment, the University of Jena, Germany. His recent research focuses on the changing role of civil society, alternative energy systems, the sociology of engineering, real world experiments, ecological design, renewable energy systems, risk and ignorance, and theories of the knowledge society. He is a founding editor of the journal Nature + Culture. Book publications in English include Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design (2010), Renewable Energies (2014, with Rüdiger Mautz), the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies (edited with Linsey McGoey, 2015), and Green European: Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in a Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective (2017, co-editor with Audrone Telesiene).
Contributors:
Mauro Berni, University of Campinas, Brazil
Marilyn A. Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karl-Michael Brunner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University
Neilton Fidelis da Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Martin David, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Debra J. Davidson, University of Alberta
Ana Delicado, University of Lisbon
Jennifer Dodge, SUNY Albany
Cyria Emelianoff, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Marcos A.V. Freitas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Paul K. Gellert, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Paula Graham, Memorial University
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
José Alexandre Hage, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ana Horta, University of Lisbon
Sampsa Hyysalo, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Jouni Juntunen, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Janet A. Lorenzen, Willamette University
Sylvia Mandl, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Paulo Manduca, University of Campinas and Universidade Paulista-UNIP, Brazil
David Mares, Rice University & University of California, San Diego
Nils Markusson, Lancaster University
Iure Paiva, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
Marcio Giannini Pereira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Thomas Pfister, Zeppelin University
Sybille Roehrkasten, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam
Harald Rohracher, Linköping University, Sweden
Perry Sadorsky, York University
Jalel Sager, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Schweighofer, Zeppelin University
Jack D. Sharples, European University at St. Petersburg
Christine Shearer, CoalSwarm, San Francisco
Jillian Rene Smith, Memorial University
Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Sussex
Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University
Mark CJ Stoddart, Memorial University
Harriet Thomson, Manchester University
Ion Bogdan Vasi, University of Iowa
John Vogler, Keele University
Aleksandra Wagner, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Richard York, University of Oregon
