Energy Justice in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections, Lessons and Critiques
Redaktion: Mejía-Montero, Adolfo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents valuable insights, critiques, and contributions from energy researchers focused on Latin American case studies. Their work not only enriches the understanding of energy justice but also addresses a significant gap in the current academic literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040315392
• Artikelnr.: 73307009

Autorenporträt

Adolfo Mejía-Montero is a lecturer in Energy, Society, and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, where he is part of the School of Social and Political Science's Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS). He also serves as the director of the MSc programme in Energy, Society, and Sustainability within the School of Geosciences. With an interdisciplinary background in physics, engineering, and human geography, Adolfo has contributed to a wide range of research projects focused on energy justice, low¿carbon energy projects in indigenous territories, wind and solar power, mixed¿methods research, and sustainable energy systems, particularly in Latin America and the United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Energy justice in Latin America: Exploring a growing agenda
Adolfo Mejía-Montero
PART I
Regional reflections on energy justice across Latin America
Chapter 2. Political Economy and Energy Justice: Rentier Dynamics in Fossil
Extractivist States in Latin America
Rosa Lehmann and Pedro Alarcón
Chapter 3. Conflicts linked to critical minerals and renewables in South
America - The hydropower and copper cases through the energy justice lens
Axel Bastián Poque González
Chapter 4. Searching for 'indigenous' energy justice: Case studies of Costa
Rica's El Diquís and Panama's Barro Blanco hydroelectric projects
Nora Hampl
Chapter 5. Bioethical Aspects Related to Energy Poverty in Latin America:
An Energy Justice Approach
Carlos Díaz-Rodríguez
Chapter 6. Wind turbine blades: An emerging energy justice agenda in Latin
America.
Eduardo Martínez-Mendoza, Eduardo Fernández-Echeverría, Gregorio
Fernández-Lambert, Marieli Lavoignet-Ruíz and Luis Enrique
García-Santamaría
PART II
Lessons and experiences of low-carbon transitions and energy justice within
national borders
Chapter 7. The Chilean Energy Transition through Energy Justice as a Policy
Assessment Approach
Nicolás Silva Valenzuela
Chapter 8. Wind Farms Impacts and Energy Justice Relationships: The Case of
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Eduardo Martínez-Mendoza and Luis Arturo Rivas-Tovar
Chapter 9. Exploring Bolivia's lithium ambition through an expanded energy
justice lens
Romain Mauger and Paola Villavicencio-Calzadilla
Chapter 10. Astronomy and Energy Justice in the Atacama Desert
Paola Velasco Herrejón, Isabelle Viole, Guillermo Valenzuela-Venegas,
Sabrina Sartori, Marianne Zeyringer.
PART II
Criticizing and expanding energy justice grounded on a Latin American
perspective
Chapter 11. Constructing a regulatory framework for energy justice?
Evidence from Ecuador
Mendieta-Vicuña, Diana and Esparcia, Javier
Chapter 12. How do you live and adapt to energy insecurity?
Gianna Monteiro Farias Simões and Solange Maria Leder
Chapter 13. Towards energy justice in Argentina. Learning from inclusion
experiences.
Alejandra Ise, Silvina Carrizo, Luciana Clementi1 and Marie Forget
Chapter 14. Struggles for Pluriversal Fairness: Decolonizing energy justice
through autonomous praxis in Mexico
Carlos Tornel
Chapter 15. Beyond Inclusion: Advocating for a Feminist Understanding of
Energy Justice
Lillian Sol Cueva
CONCLUSION
Chapter 16. Powering Energy Justice in Latin America
Adolfo Mejía-Montero
Index