Governing Shale Gas: Development, Citizen Participation and Decision Making in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0367459868 ISBN 13: 9780367459864

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

Riassunto

Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, have increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to manage the risks of unconventional oil and gas development and the ability for citizens to engage and participate in decisions regarding these systems. Stakeholder participation is essential for the social and political legitimacy of energy extraction and production, what the industry calls a 'social license' to operate.

This book attempts to bring together critical themes inherent in the energy governance literature and illustrate them through cases in multiple countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, South Africa, Germany and Poland. These themes include how multiple actors and institutions – industry, governments and regulatory bodies at all scales, communities, opposition movements, and individual landowners – have roles in developing, contesting, monitoring, and enforcing practices and regulations within unconventional oil and gas development. Overall, the book proposes a systemic, participatory, community-led approach required to achieve a form of legitimacy that allows communities to derive social priorities by a process of community visioning.

This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy-makers with an interest in shale gas development, and energy policy and governance.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Whitton is the Director of UCLan Energy and a Co-Director of the Research Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change at the University of Central Lancashire, UK

Matthew Cotton is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Environment Department at the University of York, UK

Ioan M. Charnley-Parry is a post-doctoral research associate within UCLan Energy and the Research Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change at the University of Central Lancashire, UK

Kathryn Brasier is an Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, USA

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367459868
• ISBN 13: 9780367459864
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Whitton John
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania