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"Concepts from justice and ethics can significantly inform energy decision-makers. Benjamin K. Sovacool introduces readers to the injustices and insecurities inherent in the global energy system before presenting an energy justice conceptual framework consisting of availability, affordability, due process, good governance, prudence, intergenerational equity, intragenerational equity, and responsibility. He showcases the application of these principles to eight real-world case studies involving national energy planning in Denmark, the Warm Front program in the United Kingdom, the World Bank's Inspection Panel, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Säao Thomâe e Prâincipe's Natural Resource Fund, solar energy in Bangladesh, climate change adaptation efforts in least developed countries, and the Yasuni-ITT Initiative in Ecuador"--
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1. Introduction 2. Availability and Danish Energy Policy 3. Affordability and Fuel Poverty in England 4. Due Process and the World Bank's Inspection Panel 5. Information and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative 6. Prudence and São Tomé e Príncipe's Oil Revenue Management Law 7. Intergenerational Equity and Solar Energy in Bangladesh 8. Intragenerational Equity and Climate Change Adaptation 9. Responsibility and Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative 10. Conclusion - Conceptualizing Energy Justice
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"Sovacool writes with the authority of an expert, has amassed an impressive list of references, and makes his points quantitatively with numerous graphs and tables. ... Overall, Sovacool has presented his readers ... with well-documented ethical challenges stemming from our prodigious energy consumption. Earth would be a better place for all its species if we adhered to Sovacool's eight principles, and his well-documented case studies point the way." (Richard Wolfson, Technology and Culture, Vol. 56, April, 2015
