In Search of Good Energy Policy

Marc Ozawa is an associated researcher of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge. His current research examines the role of trust in international relations, NATO-Russian relations and Russian, East European and Eurasian affairs. Jonathan Chaplin is a specialist in political theology and a member of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy' Project. He was Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, based in Cambridge, from 2006 to 2017. Currently an independent scholar, he is a member of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian think-tank Cardus and a consultant researcher for the London-based religion and society think-tank Theos. Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Cambridge Judge Business School in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is chair of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy' Grand Challenge initiative of Energy@Cambridge and an Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG). David Reiner is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on energy and climate change politics, policy, economics, regulation and public attitudes, with a particular focus on social license to operate. Paul Warde is a Reader in Environmental History at the University of Cambridge, previously having been Professor of Environmental History at the University of East Anglia. His previous publications include The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870 (2018); The Environment: A History of the Idea (2018); and Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries (2013).

1. Introduction Marc Ozawa, Michael Pollitt, David Reiner, Jonathan Chaplin and Paul Warde; Part I. Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: 2. Political science and energy David M. Reiner; 3. Economics – the proper valuation of security and environment David Newbery; 4. Good energy: philosophical perspectives Tim Lewens; 5. Public theology – 'grounded': an energy policy rooted in human flourishing Jonathan Chaplin; 6. Anthropology and energy policy; 7. History: a long view? Paul Warde; 8. Management – from the drawing board to successful delivery Jim Platt; 9. Legal aspects of energy policy Tibisay Morgandi and Jorge E. Viñuales; Part II. Cases and Multi-Disciplinary Responses: 10. The ethics of nuclear energy: its past, present and future Behnam Taebi and Sabine Roeser; 11. Fukushima and German energy policy 2005–2015/16 Christian Growitsch and Felix Höffler; 12. Rethinking the environmental state: an economic history of the Swedish environmental Kuznets curve for carbon Magnus Lindmark; 13. Fossil fuel systems to 100% renewable energy based smart energy systems: lessons from the case of Denmark, 1973–2017 Frede Hvelplund, Søren Djørup and Karl Sperling; 14. A political economy of carbon capture and storage: how interests have outstripped economics in shaping the evolution of a technology David M. Reiner; 15. Scaling clean energy for data centers: trends, problems, solutions Atif Ansar, Dan Madrigal and Seth Collins; 16. Public participation in the context of energy activities: the role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli; 17. Biofuel energy, ancestral time, and the destruction of Borneo: an ethical perspective Michael S. Northcott; 18. From inspiration to implementation: Laudato Si', public theology and the demands of energy policy Jonathan Chaplin; 19. Introduction to multi-disciplinary approaches Marc Ozawa and Michael Pollitt; 20. A comparative study of air pollution trends in historical London and contemporary Beijing Jacqueline Lam, Yang Han, Shan-Shan Wang, Victor O. K. Li, Michael Pollitt, and Paul Warde; 21. The power of Siberia: a Eurasian pipeline policy 'good' for whom? 22. Responses and final thoughts.