Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability / by Hanna Lempinen.
2019
HM856-861
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Title
Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability / by Hanna Lempinen.
Author
Lempinen, Hanna., author
Edition
1st ed. 2019.
ISBN
3030022692
9783030022693
9783030022686 (print)
3030022684
9783030022709 (print)
3030022706
9783030022693
9783030022686 (print)
3030022684
9783030022709 (print)
3030022706
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (117 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-02269-3 doi
Call Number
HM856-861
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.794
Summary
In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world's Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and developing technologies are expected to push energy-related activities ever further into the previously inaccessible north. Within this framework, energy in the Arctic is predominantly understood as synonymous with oil and gas production for international exports; meanwhile, any social sustainability concerns associated with energy-related developments remain largely neglected or reduced to regional socioeconomic concerns. Lempinen adopts an alternative approach, exploring how energy and its societal aspects are defined and debated in the context of the circumpolar north. Combining an in-depth conceptual discussion on energy and the social dimension of sustainability with an empirical focus on the scientific and political "truths" produced about energy and society in the Arctic energyscape, this book is an enlightening read for students, scholars and professionals interested in issues related to energy and society in the Arctic or beyond. Hanna Lempinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. Lempinen's research builds on environmental sociology, social impact assessment literature and sustainability studies in developing novel approaches to understanding the intertwinements of energy and the society at large.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Energy and the North
2. The Politics of Energy and Sustainability
3. The "Social" in the Sustainable
4. The Elusive Social and the Arctic Energyscape
5. Concluding Thoughts.
2. The Politics of Energy and Sustainability
3. The "Social" in the Sustainable
4. The Elusive Social and the Arctic Energyscape
5. Concluding Thoughts.