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dc.contributor.authorLe Gal, Elodieen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Jordi Jaria i Manzano, Nathalie Chalifour, and Louis J Kotzeen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-09T14:06:00Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationEnergy, Governance and Sustainability, p. 78-98en
dc.identifier.isbn9781785368110en
dc.identifier.isbn9781785368462en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20730-
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the Twelfth IUCNAEL colloquium was to explore energy themes relating to achieving a 'fair society in a safe planet'. In the context of global climate change and rising world energy demand putting increasing pressures on finite natural resources, new efficient and sustainable energy technologies are being developed to sustain human activities, combat climate change and protect global environmental assets. While non-renewable fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal are likely to remain the main sources of energy supply around the world in the near future, different low-carbon technologies are being developed to maximize renewable energies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These technologies include wind power (on-shore and off-shore); solar (photo-voltaic and solar thermal electricity); geothermal power; biomass; hydro-power (small-scale and large-scale); biogas (including landfill and sewage gas). According to the International Energy Agency (lEA), renewable energy is one of the key pillars of a low-carbon economy, along with other elements such as energy efficiency, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage. However, in its Foresight Report, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) identified emerging global environmental issues: specifically the need to overcome the barriers to implementing renewable energies and the importance of adopting new approaches for minimizing the risks of novel technologies. These two key themes have thus been brought to the attention of policy-makers. The Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents, on such catastrophic scales, highlight how the history of energy innovation can have environmental, social and economic consequences, and often at the expense of more vulnerable populations. New low-carbon energy technologies are not risk-free to humans and natural systems and the regulations of these new forms of energy production can also impact vulnerable communities.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherEdward Elgar Publishing Limiteden
dc.relation.ispartofEnergy, Governance and Sustainabilityen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIUCN Academy of Environmental Law Seriesen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleUsing social science perspectives on risk to implement an environmental justice analysis: Is this the right way forward to mitigate the social risks of low carbon energy technologies and help policy makers achieve renewable energy targets worldwide?en
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.identifier.doi10.4337/9781785368462.00011en
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental and Natural Resources Lawen
local.contributor.firstnameElodieen
local.subject.for2008180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Lawen
local.subject.seo2008960799 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Lawen
local.profile.emailelegal2@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20170331-13467en
local.publisher.placeCheltenham, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters14en
local.format.startpage78en
local.format.endpage98en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.title.subtitleIs this the right way forward to mitigate the social risks of low carbon energy technologies and help policy makers achieve renewable energy targets worldwide?en
local.contributor.lastnameLe Galen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:elegal2en
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:20923en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleUsing social science perspectives on risk to implement an environmental justice analysisen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/version/229127437en
local.search.authorLe Gal, Elodieen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2016en
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/45ab2306-4441-4cc0-86d2-53988aab5625en
local.subject.for2020480202 Climate change lawen
local.subject.seo2020190299 Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classifieden
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