Energy Justice in Latin America by Mejía-Montero, Adolfo;

Rövid leírás:

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.

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Since it was coined as an academic term more than ten years ago, energy justice has experienced accelerated growth as a relevant and widely recognised concept that allows energy researchers to engage with diverse energy issues. Nevertheless, energy justice still faces theoretical and empirical gaps, including a lack of diversity in author demographics and case studies coming from regions in the Global South. Against this backdrop, this book brings together 30 authors whose research draws from Latin American countries like Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru, as well as wider regional perspectives. The selected case studies combine low‑carbon transitions, regulations and technologies with issues of gender, indigeneity, (neo)colonialism, autonomy, poverty and inequality. Importantly, the chapters examine how energy justice might influence existing approaches and worldviews on sustainability, which strive for just and clean future energy systems by redressing regional inequalities and tackling the global challenge of climate change. As such, Energy Justice in Latin America opens new spaces for a growing research community to redefine and jointly construct a more complete, regionally specific notion of energy justice.

Highlighting the ways in which the discussion included in this book resonates with other regions in the Global South, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy justice, energy poverty, energy democracy and energy policy, as well as Latin American studies more broadly.

Tartalomjegyzék:

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