Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy Chapter 15 Review

American academic

Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool, May 2010
Alma mater	Virginia Tech
Known for	Energy policy IPCC AR5 report
Awards	Dedication to Variety and Justice Honor (2015)
Scientific career
Institutions	Aarhus Academy University of Sussex Boston University

Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American bookish who is director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University equally well as Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. He was formerly Managing director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at the Department of Business organization Evolution and Engineering and a professor of social sciences at Aarhus University. He is also professor of energy policy at the University of Sussex, where he formerly directed the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand and the Sussex Energy Group. He has written on energy policy, ecology issues, and scientific discipline and technology policy. Sovacool is editor-in-primary of Free energy Enquiry & Social Science.

Education [edit]

Sovacool has a available's degree in Philosophy and Communication Studies (2001) from John Carroll University, principal's degrees in Rhetoric (2003) from Wayne Land Academy and in Science Policy (2005) Virginia Tech, and a PhD (2006) in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech.^{[1] [ii]}

Career [edit]

While at Virginia Tech, Sovacool worked every bit a graduate pupil on a grant from the National Science Foundation's Electrical Power Networks Efficiency and Security Plan analyzing the barriers to minor renewable electricity sources and distributed generation in the United States.^[3] He worked in research and advisory capacities for the New York State Free energy Research and Evolution Authority, Semiconductor Materials and Equipment International, the Global environment facility, the World Banking company Group, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.^[3]

From 2007 until 2011 Sovacool was at the National University of Singapore, where he led research projects supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation investigating how to meliorate energy security for impoverished rural communities throughout Asia.^[4]

Sovacool was an acquaintance professor at Vermont Law School and founded their Energy Security & Justice Program in 2011.^[4] In 2012, Sovacool was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar at Key European University in Republic of hungary. He consulted for the Asian Development Banking company, United Nations Development Plan, and United nations Economical and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.^[iii] He was awarded the Dedication to Diversity and Justice Award from the American Bar Association in 2015.^[5]

In 2013, Sovacool was Managing director of the Center for Energy Technology and professor of business and social sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark.^{[six] [7]} He is as well Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex in the U.k..^[viii] Sovacool lectures on energy security, alternative and renewable energy, environmental economics, and energy policy.^[3]

In 2014, Sovacool became the founding editor-in-chief of Energy Inquiry & Social Scientific discipline, which explores the interactions betwixt free energy systems and society.^{[nine] [10]}

Publications [edit]

Sovacool has authored numerous academic articles and book chapters and has written stance editorials for The Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle.^[3] According to Google Scholar his scientific publication has (2019) an h-alphabetize of 69.^[11]

In 2007, Sovacool co-edited Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths.^{[12] [13]} In 2008, he wrote The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What'south Blocking Make clean Power in the Us which was published by Praeger and won a 2009 Nautilus Book Accolade.^[14]

In Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011) Sovacool says, following a detailed analysis, that in that location is a "consensus among a broad base of operations of contained, nonpartisan experts that nuclear ability plants are a poor option for producing electricity", and that "energy efficiency programs and renewable power technologies are improve than nuclear power plants".^[xv] In 2016, Sovacool, Andrew Lawrence and Andrew Stirling published an article in Climate Policy claiming that pro-nuclear free energy countries had acted more than slowly to accost climate change.^{[xvi] [17]} Critics pointed out errors in the data the article was based on,^{[eighteen] [xix]} and the authors retracted it, as the two errors "had the combined effect of invalidating primal findings of this paper".^[twenty]

In October 2020, Sovacool and Stirling published another article in Nature Energy ^[21] analysing data from 123 countries over 25 years that over again argues that pro-nuclear countries do non show significantly lower carbon emissions, and that in poorer countries nuclear programmes are associated with relatively higher carbon emissions.^{[22] [23]} The results have been disputed in 2 publications. Harrison Brutal et al. analyzed the aforementioned information every bit Sovacool did, finding that "nuclear power and renewable energy are both associated with lower per capita CO2 emissions with furnishings of like magnitude".^[24] Friedrich Wagner investigated the CO₂ emissions caused past nuclear and renewable power. His "results are in complete contradiction" with the Sovacool study.^[25] Sovacool and colleagues accept challenged such publications, with a rebuttal in Nature Energy noting that^[26] "rather than finding whatsoever disquisitional flaws in our analysis," such studies instead "accept only finer confirmed our ain basis for raising critical questions about the assumptions of parity in the carbon reducing furnishings of nuclear and renewable strategies."

Books [edit]

• Sovacool, BK and MA Chocolate-brown (Eds.) Energy and American Order: Thirteen Myths (New York: Springer, 2007)
• Sovacool, BK. The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Make clean Power in the United States (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008)
• Mendonça, Yard, D Jacobs, and BK Sovacool. Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook, (London: Earthscan, 2009)
• Sovacool, BK (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Energy Security (London: Routledge, 2010)
• Sovacool, BK. Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Disquisitional Global Cess of Atomic Energy (London: Globe Scientific, 2011)
• Dark-brown, MA and BK Sovacool. Climate change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options (Cambridge: MIT Printing, 2011)
• Sovacool, BK and SV Valentine. The National Politics of Nuclear Power: Economic science, Security, and Governance (London: Routledge, 2012)
• Sovacool, BK and IM Drupady. Free energy Admission, Poverty, and Evolution: The Governance of Small-scale-Calibration Renewable Energy in Developing Asia (New York: Ashgate, 2012)
• Sovacool, BK and CJ Cooper. The Governance of Energy Megaprojects: Politics, Hubris, and Energy Security (London: Edward Elgar, 2013)
• Sovacool, BK. Energy & Ethics: Justice and the Global Energy Challenge (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)
• Sovacool, BK, R Sidortsov, and B Jones. Energy Security, Equality and Justice (London: Routledge, 2013)
• Halff, Antoine, J Rozhon and BK Sovacool (Eds.). Energy Poverty: Global Challenges and Local Solutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Sovacool, BK and MH Dworkin. Global Energy Justice: Principles, Issues, and Practices (Cambridge: Cambridge Academy Press, 2014)
• Sovacool, BK (Ed.). Energy Security (London: Sage, Six Volumes, 2014)
• Sovacool, BK (Ed.). Energy, Poverty, and Development (London: Routledge Disquisitional Concepts in Development Studies Serial, Four Volumes, 2014)
• Sovacool, BK and BO Linnér. The Political Economic system of Climatic change Adaptation (Basingstoke United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland/New York United states of america: Palgrave Macmillan and the Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
• Sovacool, BK, MA Brown, and SV Valentine. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: 15 Contentious Questions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Academy Printing, 2016)
• Van de Graaf, T, BK Sovacool, F Kern, A Ghosh, and MT Klare (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy (Basingstoke Britain/New York United States: Palgrave Macmillan Handbooks in International Political Economy Serial, 2016)
• Valentine, SV, MA Brown, and BK Sovacool. Empowering the Great Free energy Transition: Policy for a Low-Carbon Futurity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)
• Sovacool, BK. Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions (New York and London: Routledge, 2019).
• Noel, 50, J Kester, G Zarazua de Rubens, and BK Sovacool. Vehicle-to-Filigree: A Sociotechnical Transition Beyond Electric Mobility (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019).
• Van de Graaf, T and BK Sovacool. Global Free energy Politics (Oxford: Polity Press, 2020).

See also [edit]

• 100% renewable energy
• Renewable energy commercialization
• Renewable free energy in developing countries
• Comparisons of life-wheel greenhouse gas emissions

References [edit]

1. ^ "Benjamin Sovacool's bookish curriculum". Aarhus University. xv October 2020.
2. ^ Grimes, Cathy (ix May 2019). "Benjamin Sovacool to receive the 2019 Graduate Alumni Achievement Award". Virginia Tech Daily . Retrieved nine October 2020.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Vermont Law School (2013). "Benjamin K. Sovacool Biography". Archived from the original on 2013-05-28.
4. ^ ^{a b} "VT Law School Launches Energy Security & Justice Projection". Vermont Law School. January 24, 2012. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
5. ^ ABA. "Environment, Energy, and Resource Dedication to Diverseness and Justice Laurels - Past Award Recipients". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-eleven .
6. ^ Aarhus University q. "Professor Benjamin Sovacool".
7. ^ Aarhus Academy (2013). "Keynote speakers". PMA 2014 Briefing. Archived from the original on 2013-09-12.
8. ^ University of Sussex. "Benjamin Sovacool joins Sussex Free energy Grouping".
9. ^ "Source details: Energy Research & Social Scientific discipline". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2017-02-02 .
10. ^ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-research-and-social-science/news/energy-enquiry-social-science-tops-recent-periodical-rankings%7Ctitle= Energy Research & Social Science tops recent periodical rankings
11. ^ "Benjamin Sovacool - User profile". Google Scholar. 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2018-xi-26 .
12. ^ Sioshansi, Fereidoon P. (2007). "Energy and American Order—Thirteen Myths (Volume Review)" (PDF). Energy Policy. 35 (12): 6554–6555. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2007.08.008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-xvi. Retrieved 2010-03-02 .
13. ^ Pasqualetti, Martin J. (2008). "Review of Energy and American Society--Thirteen Myths, B. Sovacool, M. Brown (eds.)". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. eight (two): 504–505. doi:10.1080/00045600801944210.
14. ^ Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool ^{[ permanent expressionless link ]}
15. ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Contesting the Futurity of Nuclear Ability (PDF). World Scientific. pp. 248–250. doi:10.1142/7895. ISBN978-981-4322-75-ane.
16. ^ Lawrence, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin; Stirling, Andrew (2016). "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Nuclear energy and path dependence in Europe's 'Energy wedlock': coherence or connected departure?". Climate Policy. xvi (5): 622–641. doi:x.1080/14693062.2016.1179616. ISSN 1469-3062.
17. ^ "Pro-nuclear countries making slower progress on climate targets". Science News. 22 Baronial 2016. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved nine October 2020.
18. ^ "Refutation of recent Climate Policy newspaper written past Lawrence, Sovacool & Stirling". 2 September 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
19. ^ Thompson, Nicholas (12 Oct 2016). "A Response to Lawrence, Sovacool, and Stirling". Retrieved 9 October 2020.
20. ^ Lawrence, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin; Stirling, Andrew (2016). "Authorial statement of article withdrawal" (PDF). Climate Policy. 16 (5): ri–rii.
21. ^ Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Schmid, Patrick; Stirling, Andy; Walter, Goetz; MacKerron, Gordon (5 October 2020). "Differences in carbon emissions reduction betwixt countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power". Nature Free energy.
22. ^ Vowles, Neil (5 October 2020). "2'due south a crowd: Nuclear and renewables don't mix. Only the latter tin evangelize truly depression carbon energy says new written report". News. University of Sussex. Retrieved ix October 2020.
23. ^ Satherley, Dan (nine Oct 2020). "Nuclear ability won't solve climate change - report". Newshub . Retrieved 9 October 2020.
24. ^ Barbarous, Harrison; Gilbert, Alexander; Jenkins, Jesse; Mildenberger, Matto (2021-01-08). "Respond to 'Differences in Carbon Emissions Reduction between Countries Pursuing Renewable Electricity Versus Nuclear Power,' by Sovacool Et Al. (2020)". SSRN. Elsevier. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3762762.
25. ^ Wagner, Friedrich (2021-05-20). "CO2 emissions of nuclear power and renewable energies: a statistical assay of European and global data". The European Physical Journal Plus. 136. doi:ten.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01508-7.
26. ^ Sovacool, B.M., Schmid, P., Stirling, A., Walter G, and MacKerron G. "Answer to: Nuclear power and renewable energy are both associated with national decarbonization," Nature Free energy 7 (January, 2022), pp. 30–31. https://www.nature.com/manufactures/s41560-021-00965-9

External links [edit]

• Benjamin Sovacool - Google Scholar Citations - List of publications and citations

vierasenew1948.blogspot.com

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