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Energy and Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge. By Benjamin K. Sovacool. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 304. $100/$29.
Benjamin Sovacool's Energy and Ethics is a blueprint for advancing energy justice at both local and global scales. His energy justice framework includes eight key principles: energy should be widely available, energy should be affordable, decision making should follow due process, energy information should be openly accessible, energy development should prudently manage for long-term sustainability, energy costs and benefits should be distributed equitably in the present as well as intergenerationally, and finally, energy systems should responsibly mitigate externalities, make harmed communities whole, and protect the health of the biotic communities of our planet.
After Sovacool's concise introduction, each chapter in the book elaborates one of these eight principles through a specific case study. Methodically organized, each has an introduction to the principle, a history of the case study, and a discussion of the benefits and challenges of implementing...