Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap

When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-262-03879-9
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: The MIT Press

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.In today's industrialized world, almost everything we do consumes energy. While industrialized countries enjoy all the amenities of modern energy, more than a billion people in the developing world still lack energy access. Why is energy poverty persistent in some countries and not in others? Offering the first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap explores why governments have or have not been able to lead in providing modern energy to their least advantaged citizens. Focusing on access to modern cooking fuels and household electrification, the authorsdevelop a new political-economic theory that introduces government interest, institutional capacity, and local accountability as key determinants of energy access. They draw on case studies from India, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America to offer the optimistic conclusion that governments can improve institutional capacity and local accountability through appropriate policy design. Energy poverty is a policy problem, the authors assert, and engaging with it as such offers new opportunities not only for ensuring equal energy access, but also for political, economic, and environmental development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aklin, Michaël

Bayer, Patrick (Lecturer, University of Glasgow)

Bayer, Patrick

Harish, S.P.

Urpelainen, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Industrie- und Technologiepolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Harish, S.P.
S. P. Harish is Assistant Professor in Government at the College of William & Mary.

Bayer, Patrick
Patrick Bayer is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow.

Urpelainen, Johannes
Johannes Urpelainen is Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS,) Founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP), and coauthor (with Michaël Aklin) of Renewables (MIT Press).

Aklin, Michaël
Michaël Aklin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and coauthor (with Johannes Urpelainen) of Renewables (MIT Press).