Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies

Stefan Bouzarovski is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester and Director of the Collaboratory for Urban Resilience and Energy at the Manchester Urban Institute, UK.Martin J Pasqualetti is Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, USA. Vanesa Castan Broto is Senior Lecturer in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, UK.

• Introduction Part 1: Energy territories and transitions 1. New geographies of the Texas energy revolution 2. A Study of technology and policy in liquid biofuel production in the United States 3. New perspectives on an ancient energy resource: biomass, bioenergy, and emerging bio-economies 4. The changing landscape of biofuels: A global review 5. Geographical pivots and 21st century Eurasian energy flows: an energy heartland from the Arctic to Central Asia 6. Mobile energy and obdurate infrastructure: Distant carbon and the making of modern Europe 7. Emerging countries, cities and energy: questioning transitions 8. Geographies of energy intermediation and governance in the context of low carbon transitions Part 2: Energy Landscapes and the Public 9. The re-scaling of energy politics: UK nuclear facility siting in historical context 10. Re-framing the shale decision: How do we evaluate regional costs and benefits? 11. Siting dynamics in energy transitions: how generating electricity from natural gas saves cherished landscapes 12. Experiencing citizen deliberation over energy infrastructure siting: a mixed method evaluative study 13. Under the curse of coal: mined-out identity, environmental injustice and alternative futures for coal energy landscapes 14. Construction of hydropower landscapes through local discourses: a case study from Andalusia (Southern Spain) 15. Finding locations for endurably objectionable energy-related facilities: The CLAMP policy Part 3: Relational perspectives and the Politics of Energy 16. Governing transitions in energy demand 17. Embedding energy transitions in the community 18. Energy and place-making in informal settlements: a view from Cape Town 19. The energy geographies of incremental infrastructures in Ga Mashie, Accra 20. Exhaustible-renewable wind power 21. Conflictive energy landscapes: Petrocasas and the petrochemical revolution in Venezuela 22. A Luta Continua: Contending high and low carbon energy transitions in Mozambique 23. The politics of forests: Community dimensions of energy resource use

[T]his volume on energy geographies provides a diversity of theoretical and empirical perspectives from a range of countries (USA, UK, Macedonia, South Africa, Mozambique among others) useful for scholars and practitioners who wish to have an introduction to and overview of the social sciences of energy.Ankit Kumar, Local Environment, The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability