Energy Security, Equality and Justice by Benjamin K. Sovacool... - 9780415815208

Energy Security, Equality and JusticeAuthor(s): Benjamin K. Sovacool, Roman V. Sidortsov, Benjamin R. Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415815208, 978-0415815208\nSynopsis\nThis book applies concepts from ethics, justice, and political philosophy to five sets of contemporary energy problems cutting across time, economics, politics, geography, and technology. \n\nIn doing so, the authors derive two key energy justice principles from modern theories of distributive justice, procedural justice, and cosmopolitan justice. The prohibitive principle states that \""energy systems must be designed and constructed in such a way that they do not unduly interfere with the ability of people to acquire those basic goods to which they are justly entitled.\"" The affirmative principle states that \""if any of the basic goods to which people are justly entitled can only be secured by means of energy services, then in that case.