Book contents
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Part II Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
- 10 The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Its Past, Present and Future1
- 11 Fukushima and German Energy Policy 2005–2015/2016
- 12 Rethinking the Environmental State: An Economic History of the Swedish Environmental Kuznets Curve for Carbon
- 13 Fossil Fuel Systems to 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy-Based Smart Energy Systems: Lessons from the Case of Denmark, 1973–2017
- 14 The Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage: How Interests Have Outstripped Economics in Shaping the Evolution of a Technology
- 15 Scaling Clean Energy for Data Centres: Trends, Problems, Solutions
- 16 Public Participation in the Context of Energy Activities: The Role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
- 17 Biofuel Energy, Ancestral Time and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
- 18 From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si’, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy
- Part III Multidisciplinary Cases
- Index
- References
18 - From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si’, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy
from Part II - Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2019
Book contents
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- In Search of Good Energy Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Part II Cases and Multidisciplinary Responses
- 10 The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Its Past, Present and Future1
- 11 Fukushima and German Energy Policy 2005–2015/2016
- 12 Rethinking the Environmental State: An Economic History of the Swedish Environmental Kuznets Curve for Carbon
- 13 Fossil Fuel Systems to 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy-Based Smart Energy Systems: Lessons from the Case of Denmark, 1973–2017
- 14 The Politics of Carbon Capture and Storage: How Interests Have Outstripped Economics in Shaping the Evolution of a Technology
- 15 Scaling Clean Energy for Data Centres: Trends, Problems, Solutions
- 16 Public Participation in the Context of Energy Activities: The Role of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
- 17 Biofuel Energy, Ancestral Time and the Destruction of Borneo: An Ethical Perspective
- 18 From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si’, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy
- Part III Multidisciplinary Cases
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter presents a critical appreciation of the influential encyclical letter of Pope Francis on the environment, Ladauto Si’, issued on the eve of COP 21 in 2015. After placing the document in the context of earlier papal statements and noting its immediate impacts, the chapter sets out the theological, diagnostic and normative substance of the document and explores the multiple challenges it presents to diverse actors in the field of energy policy, from consumers through to global institutions. The chapter appreciates the originality, radicality and inspirational quality of the document but observes that it leaves much work for these actors if its message is to be effectively translated into workable, strategic environmental and energy policy guidelines. The document does well at the macro-level of broad cultural analysis and at the micro-level of illustrative concrete examples but falls short at the meso-level in terms of defining guidelines for specific sectors such as technology, markets and states.
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- In Search of Good Energy Policy , pp. 257 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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