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This book offers an insight into climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and discusses energy justice issues within this framework.
The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development have become popular among local communities, international policymakers, and researchers. In addition to these important topics, themes such as climate justice, environmental justice, global energy justice, ecological justice, sustainable justice, and procedural justice remain attractive to scholars and researchers internationally. In this book, scholars elaborate on various responses to human-induced climate change, calling for action, mitigation, and adaptation, and encouraging further thorough analysis and research in the field.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Energy and Environmental Justice. By Elena V. Shabliy and Dmitry Kurochkin.- Chapter 2: The Forgotten Impacts of Waste Disposal and Intergenerational Justice. By Kelly Tzoumis and Cynthia Boyer.- Chapter 3: Nomadic Power: The Case of Solar Panels in Mongolia. By Allison Hahn.- Chapter 4: Semantics of Cleanliness. By Atsuhide Ito.- Chapter 5: Destined for Coal? A "Hierarchy of Harms" and the Prospects of Renewable Energy in Kosovo. By Bengü Aydin Dikmen and Didem Buhari Gülmez.- Chapter 6: Appraising the Sustainability Aspect in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Discourse: The Case of Uganda.- By Alex Ronald Mwangu.- Chapter 7: Brazil's Green Energy: Today and Tomorrow. By Eugene M. Khartukov and Ellen E. Starostina.- Chapter 8: Trade Justice, Human Rights, and the Case of Palm Oil. By Irene Hadiprayitno and Sine Bagatur.- Chapter 9: Energy Justice Across Generations. By Chaitanya Motupalli.- Conclusion.
About the author
Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin is Senior Research Analyst at Harvard University, where he teaches data science, time series analysis, and econometrics. He graduated
magna cum laude from Lomonosov Moscow State University where he majored in Physics and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Tulane University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and holds Master's Degrees in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, and Economic Analysis and Policy.
Dr. Martha J. Crawford is an internationally recognized expert on technological innovation with extensive experience in business, environmental policy, and higher education. Before joining the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology, she was on the faculty of Harvard Business School, and the course she created, "21st Century Energy," was recognized in 2019 by the Paige Prize for national excellence in integrating sustainability into business education curricula.
Dr. Elena Shabliy graduated with honors from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and received her Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Tulane University. She is Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.
