Southeast Asian Energy Transitions: Between Modernity and Sustainability

Southeast Asian Energy Transitions: Between Modernity and Sustainability
ISBN-10
1472448758
ISBN-13
9781472448750
Category
Social Science
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
2015-10-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Mattijs Smits

Description

Addressing the apparent tensions between modernity and sustainability in Southeast Asia, this book offers novel insights into the global challenge of moving towards a low-carbon energy system. With an original and accessible take on social theory related to energy transitions, modernity and sustainability, Mattijs Smits argues for a reinvigorated geography of energy. He also challenges universalistic and linear assumptions about energy transitions and makes the case for ‘energy trajectories’, stressing embeddedness, contingency and connections between scales.

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