Building Resilient Energy Systems - Lessons From Japan

This book explores an ongoing puzzle: why don't catastrophic events, such as oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, always trigger transitions away from the energy technologies involved?

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2.Framing Concepts: Energy System Lock-in, Shocks, Stakeholders and Resilience  3.1970s-1980s Oil Shocks: Not So Shocking 4.1990s and 2000s Nuclear Accidents and Scandal: Shock Absorption 5. 2011-2020 Fukushima Disaster: Shock to the System or Not? 6. Conclusions: Lessons for Resilience and Innovation Index

About the author

Jennifer F. Sklarew brings 30 years of energy policymaking and analysis to her research and teaching as a professor of energy and sustainability at George Mason University. National Public Radio (NPR) has quoted her as an expert on Japanese energy policymaking. In the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Japan, she collaborated on Japanese electricity and gas deregulation and served as a Mike Mansfield Fellow in Tokyo. She previously served as an energy policy consultant to Japanese utility companies and a policy analyst for the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute. Her broader food-energy-water-climate resilience interest appears in this book and a co-authored book, Managing Challenges for the Flint Water Crisis.

Summary

This book explores an ongoing puzzle: why don’t catastrophic events, such as oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, always trigger transitions away from the energy technologies involved?

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer F. Sklarew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032130873
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213087-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Japan, NATURE / Ecology, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, ENERGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Nuclear power & engineering, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Natural disasters, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Petroleum & oil industries, Energy industries and utilities, Nuclear power and engineering