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This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.
The volume identifies varying definitions and dimensions of energy security, including those that prioritize security of supply and affordability alongside those that emphasize availability, energy efficiency, trade, environmental quality, and social and political stewardship.¿ It also explores the various metrics that can be used to give energy security more coherence, and also to enable it to be measured, including recent attempts to measure energy security progress at the national level, with a special emphasis placed on countries within the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), countries within Asia, and industrialized countries worldwide.¿
This Handbook:
¿ Broadens existing discussions of energy security that center on access to fuels, including "oil security" and "coal security."¿
¿ Focuses not only on the supply side of energy but also the demand, taking a hard look at energy services and politics along with technologies and infrastructure;
¿ Investigates energy security issues such as energy poverty, equity and access, and development;
¿ Analyzes ways to index and measure energy security progress at the national and international level.
This book will be of much interest to students of energy security, energy policy, economics, environmental studies, and IR/Security Studies in general.
List of contents
Part 1: Definitions and Concepts Introduction: Defining, Measuring, and Exploring Energy Security
Benjamin K. Sovacool 1. Energy Security and Climate Change: A Tenuous Link
Gal Luft, Ann Korin and Eshita Gupta 2. The Fuzzy Nature of Energy Security
Scott Valentine 3. Evaluating the Energy Security Impacts of Energy Policies
David von Hippel, Tatsujiro Suzuki, James H. Williams, Timothy Savage and Peter Hayes Part 2: Dimensions 4. The Sustainable Development Dimension of Energy Security
Ami Indriyanto, Dwi Ari Fauzi and Alfa Firdaus 5. The Maritime Dimension of Energy Security
Caroline Liss 6. The Public Policy Dimension of Energy Security
Andreas Goldthau 7. The Diversification Dimension of Energy Security
Andy Stirling 8. The Environmental Dimension of Energy Security
Michael Dworkin and Marilyn Brown 9. The Energy Poverty Dimension of Energy Security
Shonali Pachauri 10. The Social Development Dimension of Energy Security
Anthony D'Agostino 11. The Energy Efficiency Dimension of Energy Security
Nathalie Trudeau 12. The Energy Services Dimension of Energy Security
Jaap Jansen and Adriaan J. Van der Welle 13. The Industrial Dimension of Energy Security
Geoffrey Pakiam 14. The Competing Dimensions of Energy Security
Martin J. Pasqualetti Part 3: Metrics and Indexing 15. Indicators for Energy Security
Bert Kruyt, D.P. van Vuuren, H.J.M. de Vries and H. Groenenberg 16. Measuring Security of Energy Supply with Two Diversity Indexes
John Kessels 17. Measuring Energy Security: From Universal Indicators to Contextualized Frameworks
Aleh Cherp and Jessica Jewell 18. Applying the Four 'A's of Energy Security as Criteria in an Energy Security Ranking Method
Larry Hughes and Darren Shupe 19. Measuring Energy Security Performance in the OECD
Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown 20. Measuring Energy Security Vulnerability
Edgard Gnansounou. Conclusion: Exploring the Contested and Convergent Nature of Energy Security
Benjamin K. Sovacool and Tai Wei Lim
About the author
Benjamin K. Sovacool is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also a Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization. He is author or editor of four books on energy issues.
Summary
This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.
