Empowering Electricity
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3144-4 (ISBN)
Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation.
Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.
Julie L. MacArthur is a lecturer in politics and international relations and in the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Auckland, where she teaches environmental politics and public policy. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on community participation in renewable energy systems. Her work has been published by Monthly Review, International Journal, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, the International Handbook of Environment and Social Policy, and by Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 A Climate for Change
2 Governing Sustainability: From Crisis to Empowerment
3 Co-operatives in Canadian Political Economy
4 International Forces for Power-Sector Restructuring
5 Continental, Private, and Green(er)? Canadian Electricity Restructuring
6 Electricity Co-operatives: The Power of Public Policy
7 Off the Ground and on the Grid: New Electricity Co-operative Development
8 Co-operative Networks and the Politics of Community Power
9 Empowering Electricity
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Sustainability and the Environment |
Zusatzinfo | 29 tables |
Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3144-8 / 0774831448 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3144-4 / 9780774831444 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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