The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

Oxford Handbooks

Provides a concise yet complete introduction to technical, theoretical, and substantive areas and issues of energy politics.
Features contributions from a global roster of social scientists.
Includes technical overviews by engineers, which provide succinct primers for new researchers of energy issues.

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

Description

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century. Many factors have affected what we know about energy: a consensus among scientists on climate change and related support for renewable energy, evolving energy and resource extraction technologies, growing resource demand in the developing world, new regional and global energy governance actors, new major fossil fuel discoveries on land and underwater in states that have previously been under-resourced, rising interest in corporate social responsibility in energy companies, and the need for energy justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics synthesizes the diverse literature on these topics to provide a foundational resource for teaching and research on critical energy issues in international relations and comparative politics. Through chapters authored by both scholars and practitioners, the Handbook further develops the energy politics scholarship and community, and generates sophisticated new work that will benefit all who work on energy issues.

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

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Part I Overview
1. The Politics of Energy in a Changing Climate: An Introduction
Juliann Emmons Allison and Kathleen J. Hancock
2. Fossil Fuels: A Technical Overview
Azra N. Tutuncu
3. Nuclear Power: A Technical Overview
Savannah Fitzwater
4. The Infrastructure for Electricity: A Technical Overview
Christina E. Hoicka and Julie MacArthur
5. Oil and Gas Infrastructure: A Technical Overview
Timothy C. Coburn
6. Renewable Energy: A Technical Overview
Kyle Bahr, Nora Szarka, and Erika Boeing

Part II Energy Concepts and Issues
7. Energy Interdependence
Jeffrey D. Wilson
8. The Politics of Energy Regionalism
Kathleen J. Hancock, Stefano Palestini, and Kacper Szulecki
9. Energy Politics and Gender
Karina Standal, Tanja Winther, and Katrine Danielsen
10. The Politics of Energy Justice
Sara Fuller
11. The Energy Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility
Jessica Steinberg
12. The Politics of Energy Security
Jessica Jewell and Elina Brutschin
13. Energy and International Conflict
Jeff D. Colgan and Jan B. Stockbruegger
14. Energy as an Instrument in Global Politics
Lior Herman
15. The Politics of Oil Markets
Wojtek Wolfe
16. The Politics of Energy and Climate Change
Llewelyn Hughes

Part III Major Energy Players and Regions
17. The Energy Politics of the United States
Juliann Emmons Allison and Srinivas Parinandi
18. The Energy Politics of North America
Matto Mildenberger and Leah C. Stokes
19. The Energy Politics of the European Union
Kirsten Westphal
20. The Energy Politics of Russia and Eurasia
Margarita Balmaceda and Andreas Heinrich
21. The Energy Politics of China
Jonas Nahm
22. The Energy Politics of India
Lydia Powell
23. The Energy Politics of Japan
Trevor Incerti and Phillip Y. Lipscy
24. The Energy Politics of the Asia-Pacific Region
Mirza Sadaqat Huda and Saleem H. Ali
25. The Energy Politics of Brazil
Eliza Massi and Jewellord Nem Singh
26. The Energy Politics of Venezuela
Antulio Rosales and Miriam Sánchez
27. The Energy Politics of Latin America
Sylvia Gaylord
28. The Energy Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Eckart Woertz
29. The Energy Politics of South Africa
Lucy Baker, Jesse Burton, and Hilton Trollip
30. The Politics of Energy and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Laurence L. Delina

Part IV Conclusion
31. Energy Politics: Research Contributions and Future Directions
Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Kathleen J. Hancock is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Colorado School of Mines.

Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Contributors:

Saleem H. Ali, University of Delaware
Juliann Emmons Allison, University of California, Riverside
Kyle Bahr, Tohoku University
Lucy Baker, University of Sussex
Margarita Balmaceda, Harvard University
Erika Boeing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Elina Brutschin, Webster Vienna Private University
Jesse Burton, University of Cape Town
Timothy C. Coburn, University of Tulsa
Jeff D. Colgan, Brown University
Katrine Danielsen, KIT Royal Tropical Institute
Laurence L. Delina, Boston University
Savannah Fitzwater, National Nuclear Security Administration, US Department of Energy
Sara Fuller, Macquarie University
Sylvia Gaylord, Codex Consulting
Kathleen J. Hancock, Colorado School of Mines
Andreas Heinrich, University of Bremen
Lior Herman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christina E. Hoicka, York University
Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Nanyang Technological University
Llewelyn Hughes, Australian National University
Trevor Incerti, Yale University
Jessica Jewell, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; University of Bergen
Phillip Y. Lipscy, University of Toronto
Julie MacArthur, University of Auckland
Eliza Massi, Trade and Investment Section, Embassy of Brazil in London
Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonas Nahm, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Jewellord Nem Singh, Leiden University
Stefano Palestini, European University Institute
Srinivas Parinandi, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lydia Powell, Energy and Climate Change, ORF Centre for Resources Management, Observer Research Foundation, India
Antulio Rosales, University of Oslo
Miriam Sánchez, City University of Hong Kong
Karina Standal, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research
Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University
Jan B. Stockbruegger, Brown University
Leah C. Stokes, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nora Szarka, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) gGmbH
Kacper Szulecki, University of Oslo
Hilton Trollip, University of Cape Town
Azra N. Tutuncu, (formerly) Colorado School of Mines
Kirsten Westphal, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Jeffrey D. Wilson, Murdoch University
Tanja Winther, University of Oslo
Eckart Woertz, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies; University of Hamburg
Wojtek Wolfe, Rutgers University, Camden

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison

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Reviews and Awards

"This is an audacious, important overview of the critical issues energy politics and policy face: audacious in that its nearly 800 pages cover a wide array of diverse, unconventional issues such as climate, gender and energy, energy justice, and traditional fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy technical and policy domains ... The volume should be especially useful as a reference work directing students and researchers to further explorations." -- D. L. Feldman, CHOICE