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A Comparison of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese Perceptions of Energy Security

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A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia

scientific article (publication date: August 2010)

A Game of Cat and Fish: How to Restore the Balance in Sustainable Fisheries Management

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published 17 February 2009 in Ocean Development and International Law

A Matter of Stability and Equity: The Case for Federal Action on Renewable Portfolio Standards in the U.S

A comparative analysis of renewable electricity support mechanisms for Southeast Asia

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A comparative analysis of solar home system programmes in China, Laos, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea

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A comparative study of littering and waste in Singapore and Japan

scholarly article by Ivy Bee Luan Ong & Benjamin K. Sovacool published April 2012 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling

A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage

A critical stakeholder analysis of the Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline (TAGP) Network

A fair trade? Expert perceptions of equity, innovation, and public awareness in China’s future Emissions Trading Scheme

scientific article published in 2021

A qualitative factor analysis of renewable energy and Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) in the Asia-Pacific

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A transition to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs): why public health professionals must care

scientific article published in March 2010

Addressing Climate Change

scholarly article published 2010

All Flash, No Light: The Kabuki Dance Opposing a National Renewable Portfolio Standard

An international assessment of energy security performance

scientific article published in 2013

An international comparative assessment of construction cost overruns for electricity infrastructure

An international comparison of four polycentric approaches to climate and energy governance

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published June 2011 in Energy Policy

And then what happened? A retrospective appraisal of China’s Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP)

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Assessing U.S. energy policy

Assessing energy security performance in the Asia Pacific, 1990–2010

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Assessing the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from solar PV and wind energy: A critical meta-survey

Balancing safety with sustainability: assessing the risk of accidents for modern low-carbon energy systems

Bamboo Beating Bandits: Conflict, Inequality, and Vulnerability in the Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published February 2018 in World Development

Barriers to the diffusion of climate-friendly technologies

Behind an ambitious megaproject in Asia: The history and implications of the Bakun hydroelectric dam in Borneo

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Bending bamboo: Restructuring rural electrification in Sarawak, Malaysia

Beyond batteries: An examination of the benefits and barriers to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) transition

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Richard F. Hirsh published March 2009 in Energy Policy

Big Is Beautiful: The Case for Federal Leadership on a National Renewable Portfolio Standard

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Christopher Cooper published May 2007 in The Electricity Journal

Bolstering resilience in the coconut kingdom: Improving adaptive capacity to climate change in Vanuatu

scholarly article by Noah Richmond & Benjamin K. Sovacool published November 2012 in Energy Policy

Book review

Broken by Design

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published March 2010 in Science, Technology & Society

Building Umbrellas or Arks? Three Alternatives to Carbon Credits and Offsets

Building responsiveness to climate change through community based adaptation in Bangladesh

scholarly article by Amireeta K. Rawlani & Benjamin K. Sovacool published 24 May 2011 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Carbon capture utilization and storage in review: Sociotechnical implications for a carbon reliant world

scientific article published in 2023

Chapter 8 Bhutan: Modeling and Adaptation in the Eastern Himalayas

scholarly article published January 2012

China’s energy security: The perspective of energy users

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Climate Change and Global Energy Security

book by Marilyn A. Brown

Climate change adaptation and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF): Qualitative insights from policy implementation in the Asia-Pacific

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Climate change: Climate justice more vital than democracy

scientific article published in October 2015

Climate policy for a net-zero future: ten recommendations for Direct Air Capture

scientific article published in 2022

Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies

scientific article published on 02 July 2022

Coal and nuclear technologies: creating a false dichotomy for American energy policy

Collaborate, involve, or defend? A critical stakeholder assessment and strategy for the Danish hydrogen electrolysis industry

Comment on "Prevented mortality and greenhouse gas emissions from historical and projected nuclear power".

scientific article published on 3 June 2013

Comparing consumer perceptions of energy security, policy, and low-carbon technology: Insights from Denmark

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Torben Tambo published January 2016 in Energy Research Social Science

Competing Dimensions of Energy Security: An International Perspective

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Competing discourses of energy development: The implications of the Medupi coal-fired power plant in South Africa

Competing policy packages and the complexity of energy security

Conceptualizing and evaluating best practices in electricity and water regulatory governance

scholarly article by Darryl S.L. Jarvis & Benjamin K. Sovacool published July 2011 in Energy

Conceptualizing and measuring energy security: A synthesized approach

Conceptualizing the acceptance of wind and solar electricity

Conceptualizing urban household energy use: Climbing the “Energy Services Ladder”

Conclusions - Replacing Myths With Maxims: Rethinking The Relationship Between Energy And American Society

Confronting energy poverty behind the bamboo curtain: A review of challenges and solutions for Myanmar (Burma)

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Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Constructing a Rogue State: American Post-Cold War Security Discourse and North Korean Drug Trafficking*

Construction Cost Overruns and Electricity Infrastructure: An Unavoidable Risk?

Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power

book by Benjamin K. Sovacool

Contextualizing avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity

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Cooking with gas: Policy lessons from Rwanda's National Domestic Biogas Program (NDBP)

Corrigendum to “Contextualizing Avian mortality: A preliminary appraisal of bird and bat fatalities from wind, fossil-fuel, and nuclear electricity” [Energy Policy 37(6) (2009) 2241–2248]

scholarly article published in Energy Policy

Corrigendum to “Evaluating energy security performance from 1990 to 2010 for eighteen countries” [Energy (2011) 36: 5846–5853]

scholarly article published in Energy

Cost overruns and financial risk in the construction of nuclear power reactors: A critical appraisal

scholarly article by Alexander Gilbert et al published March 2017 in Energy Policy

Countering a corrupt oil boom: Energy justice, Natural Resource Funds, and São Tomé e Príncipe's Oil Revenue Management Law

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published January 2016 in Environmental Science and Policy

Critically weighing the costs and benefits of a nuclear renaissance

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published June 2010 in Journal Of Integrative Environmental Sciences

Cursed by crude: the corporatist resource curse and the baku-tbilisi-ceyhan pipeline

Deconstructing facts and frames in energy research: Maxims for evaluating contentious problems

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Design principles for renewable energy programs in developing countries

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Determining our climate policy future: expert opinions about negative emissions and solar radiation management pathways

scientific article published in 2022

Determining the life cycle energy efficiency of six biofuel systems in China: a Data Envelopment Analysis

scientific article

Differing cultures of energy security: An international comparison of public perceptions

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Dismissive and deceptive car dealerships create barriers to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale

scholarly article published 21 May 2018

Distributed Generation (DG) and the American Electric Utility System: What is Stopping It?

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Distributed Generation and Momentum Change in the American Electric Utility System: A Social-Science Systems Approach

Diversity: Energy studies need social science.

scientific article published in July 2014

Does transparency matter? Evaluating the governance impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Azerbaijan and Liberia

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Nathan Andrews published September 2015 in Resources Policy

Don't let disaster recovery perpetuate injustice

scientific article published on September 2017

Early modes of transport in the United States: Lessons for modern energy policymakers

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published March 2009 in Policy and Society

Electrification in the Mountain Kingdom: The implications of the Nepal Power Development Project (NPDP)

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Emissions accounting for biomass energy with CCS

article published in 2015

Empowered? Evaluating Japan's national energy strategy under the DPJ administration

Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool et al published July 2016 in World Development

Energy Myth Six – The Barriers to New and Innovative Energy Technologies are Primarily Technical: The Case of Distributed Generation (DG)

Energy Policy and Climate Change

scholarly article published 1 March 2013

Energy Poverty and Development in Papua New Guinea: Learning from the Teacher's Solar Lighting Project

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Energy Security: Insights from a Ten Country Comparison

Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths

book by Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy and environmental attitudes in the green state of Denmark: Implications for energy democracy, low carbon transitions, and energy literacy

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Energy efficiency and renewable energy under extreme conditions: Case studies from Antarctica

Energy justice: Conceptual insights and practical applications

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Michael H. Dworkin published March 2015 in Applied Energy

Energy policy and cooperation in Southeast Asia: The history, challenges, and implications of the trans-ASEAN gas pipeline (TAGP) network

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Energy policymaking in Denmark: Implications for global energy security and sustainability

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Energy security and hydropower development in Malaysia: The drivers and challenges facing the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE)

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Energy security: challenges and needs

Energy sustainability, stakeholder conflicts, and the future of hydrogen in Denmark

scholarly article by Kristian Peter Andreasen & Benjamin K. Sovacool published November 2014 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Energy-efficient municipal heating: preliminary lessons from Beijing, Kathmandu and Edinburgh

article by Olivia Gippner et al published September 2011 in International Journal of Ambient Energy

Energy. Deploying off-grid technology to eradicate energy poverty

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Enhancing China’s energy security: Determining influential factors and effective strategic measures

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Environmental Conservation Problems and Possible Solutions in Myanmar

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Environmental Damage, Abandoned Treaties, and Fossil-Fuel Dependence: The Coming Costs of Oil-and-Gas Exploration in the “1002 Area” of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Erasing Knowledge: The Discursive Structure of Globalization

Eroding Wilderness: The Ecological, Legal, Political, and Social Consequences of Oil and Natural Gas Development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)

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Evaluating energy security in the Asia pacific: Towards a more comprehensive approach

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Evaluating energy security performance from 1990 to 2010 for eighteen countries

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Examining the Small Renewable Energy Power (SREP) Program in Malaysia

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Examining the social acceptance of wind energy: Practical guidelines for onshore wind project development in France

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Expanding renewable energy access with pro-poor public private partnerships in the developing world

Expert perceptions of low-carbon transitions: Investigating the challenges of electricity decarbonisation in the Nordic region

Expert views of climate change adaptation in least developed Asia

scientific article

Expert views of climate change adaptation in the Maldives

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published 11 January 2012 in Climatic Change

Exploring Scientific Misconduct: Isolated Individuals, Impure Institutions, or an Inevitable Idiom of Modern Science?

Exploring and Contextualizing Public Opposition to Renewable Electricity in the United States

Exploring propositions about perceptions of energy security: An international survey

Exploring the Conditions for Cooperative Energy Governance: A Comparative Study of Two Asian Pipelines

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Exploring the challenges of energy and resources network governance

scholarly article by Ora-orn Poocharoen & Benjamin K. Sovacool published March 2012 in Energy Policy

Exploring the hypothetical limits to a nuclear and renewable electricity future

Exposing the Paradoxes of Climate and Energy Governance

Falsification and Demarcation in Astronomy and Cosmology

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published February 2005 in Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

Fantastic Futures and Three American Energy Transitions

Forty years of energy security trends: A comparative assessment of 22 industrialized countries

Four Problems with Global Carbon Markets: A Critical Review

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From a hard place to a rock: Questioning the energy security of a coal-based economy

Fuel poverty, affordability, and energy justice in England: Policy insights from the Warm Front Program

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Fuel poverty, excess winter deaths, and energy costs in Vermont: Burdensome for whom?

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Further reflections on the temporality of energy transitions: A response to critics

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Gers gone wired: Lessons from the Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project (REAP) in Mongolia

Going Completely Renewable: Is It Possible (Let Alone Desirable)?

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Charmaine Watts published May 2009 in The Electricity Journal

Green Means ‘Go?’—A Colorful Approach to a U.S. National Renewable Portfolio Standard

Halting hydro: A review of the socio-technical barriers to hydroelectric power plants in Nepal

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Hard and soft paths for climate change adaptation

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published July 2011 in Climate Policy

How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions

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Hydrogen technological innovation systems in practice: comparing Danish and American approaches to fuel cell development

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Identifying future electricity–water tradeoffs in the United States

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Kelly E. Sovacool published July 2009 in Energy Policy

Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Improving Access to Modern Energy Services: Insights from Case Studies

Improving adaptive capacity and resilience in Bhutan

scholarly article by Harsha Meenawat & Benjamin K. Sovacool published 2 December 2010 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Improving climate change adaptation in least developed Asia

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India’s energy security: A sample of business, government, civil society, and university perspectives

Individual Behavior, the Social Sciences, and Climate Change

scholarly article by Michael Vandenbergh & Benjamin K. Sovacool published 2015 in SSRN Electronic Journal

Innovating the innovators: the case for transformational energy Research and Development

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Innovation and climate change: A review and introduction to the special issue

scientific article published in 2022

Innovation in the Malaysian Waste-to-Energy Sector: Applications with Global Potential

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Integrating power systems for remote island energy supply: Lessons from Mykines, Faroe Islands

Introduction – The Compelling Tangle of Energy and American Society

Is the Danish Wind Energy Model Replicable for Other Countries?

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Island wind-hydrogen energy: A significant potential US resource

It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures

scientific article published in June 2019

It's about dam time: Improving microhydro electrification in Tanzania

scholarly article by Eric Adebayo et al published August 2013 in Energy for Sustainable Development: the journal of the international energy initiative

Just transitions for industrial decarbonisation: A framework for innovation, participation, and justice

scientific article published in 2022

Left out in the cold: energy justice and Arctic energy research

article by Roman Sidortsov & Benjamin K. Sovacool published 2 May 2015 in Journal of environmental studies and sciences

Looking the wrong way: Bias, renewable electricity, and energy modelling in the United States

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Major hydropower states, sustainable development, and energy security: Insights from a preliminary cross-comparative assessment

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Making the Ethical and Philosophical Case for “Energy Justice”

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Managing the electricity-water nexus in China, France, India and the United States

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Mapping and interpreting critical hydrogen stakeholders in Denmark

scholarly article by Kristian Peter Andreasen & Benjamin K. Sovacool published May 2014 in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Megawatts are not megawatt-hours and other responses to Willis et al

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Microhydro electrification and climate change adaptation in Nepal: socioeconomic lessons from the Rural Energy Development Program (REDP)

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Miracle or mirage? The promise and peril of desert energy part 1

Miracle or mirage? The promise and peril of desert energy part 2

Necessary but Insufficient: State Renewable Portfolio Standards and Climate Change Policies

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Jack N. Barkenbus published July 2007 in Environment

New partnerships and business models for facilitating energy access

article published in 2012

Not Your Father's Y2K: Preparing the North American Power Grid for the Perfect Solar Storm

article by Christopher Cooper & Benjamin K. Sovacool published May 2011 in The Electricity Journal

Not your father's Y2K: preparing the north american power grid for the perfect solar storm

scholarly article published 2011

Nuclear accidents call for transdisciplinary nuclear energy research

Of Disasters and Dragon Kings: A Statistical Analysis of Nuclear Power Incidents and Accidents

scientific article

Of fast lanes, flora, and foreign workers: Managing land use conflicts in Singapore

article published in 2013

Of temporality and plurality: an epistemic and governance agenda for accelerating just transitions for energy access and sustainable development

scholarly article by Laurence L. Delina & Benjamin K Sovacool published October 2018 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Of “white crows” and “cash savers:” A qualitative study of travel behavior and perceptions of ridesharing in Denmark

scholarly article by Jesper Riber Nielsen et al published August 2015 in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

One style to build them all: Corporate culture and innovation in the offshore wind industry

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Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change

scientific article published on June 2017

Overcoming the Global Injustices of Energy Poverty

PUHCA Repeal: Higher Prices, Less R&D, and More Market Abuses?

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published January 2006 in The Electricity Journal

Pain without gain? Reviewing the risks and rewards of investing in Russian coal-fired electricity

article published in 2015

Palm oil-based biofuels and sustainability in southeast Asia: A review of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand

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Peeling the Energy Pickle: Expert Perceptions on Overcoming Nepal's Electricity Crisis

Perceptions of climate change risks and resilient island planning in the Maldives

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published 24 November 2011 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Pipelines, crisis and capital: understanding the contested regionalism of Southeast Asia

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Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives

Prioritizing low-carbon energy sources to enhance China’s energy security

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Profiling technological failure and disaster in the energy sector: A comparative analysis of historical energy accidents

Promoting a level playing field for energy options: electricity alternatives and the case of the Indian Point Energy Center

Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science: Towards codes of practice for appropriate methods and research design

Quantifying the health and environmental benefits of wind power to natural gas

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Quantifying, measuring, and strategizing energy security: Determining the most meaningful dimensions and metrics

Realizing rural electrification in Southeast Asia: Lessons from Laos

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Reassessing the safety of nuclear power

scholarly article by Spencer Wheatley et al published May 2016 in Energy Research Social Science

Reckless or righteous? Reviewing the sociotechnical benefits and risks of climate change geoengineering

scientific article published in 2021

Reconfiguring territoriality and energy security: global production networks and the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline

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Reconstructing Iraq: merging discourses of security and development

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Rejecting renewables: The socio-technical impediments to renewable electricity in the United States

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published November 2009 in Energy Policy

Renewable Energy: Economically Sound, Politically Difficult

Repensando a energia nuclear

Replacing tedium with transformation: Why the US Department of Energy needs to change the way it conducts long-term R&D

Resolving society's energy trilemma through the Energy Justice Metric

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Resolving the impasse in American energy policy: The case for a transformational R&D strategy at the U.S. Department of Energy

Rethinking the Scale, Structure & Scope of U.S. Energy Institutions

Reviewing, Reforming, and Rethinking Global Energy Subsidies: Towards a Political Economy Research Agenda

scientific article published in 2017

Revoking a License to Krill: What the United States Can Do to Save Fish Stocks in Antarctica

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Kelly Siman published January 2011 in Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

Rising to the Challenge of Sustainability: Three Cases of Climate and Energy Governance

scholarly article published 2011

Risk, innovation, electricity infrastructure and construction cost overruns: Testing six hypotheses

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Scaling and commercializing mobile biogas systems in Kenya: A qualitative pilot study

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool et al published April 2015 in Renewable Energy

Scaling the policy response to climate change

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Security of energy services and uses within urban households

Seven suppositions about energy security in the United States

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published July 2011 in Journal of Cleaner Production

Sewing climate-resilient seeds: implementing climate change adaptation best practices in rural Cambodia

scholarly article by Anthony L. D’Agostino & Benjamin K. Sovacool published 29 March 2011 in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Shale gas: better modelling for the energy mix.

scientific article published in November 2014

Sheikhs on barrels: what Saudi Arabians think about energy security

article published in 2011

Snakes in the Grass: The Energy Security Implications of Medupi

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Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization

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Solving the oil independence problem: Is it possible?

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Sound climate, energy, and transport policy for a carbon constrained world

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published March 2009 in Policy and Society

Spheres of Argument Concerning Oil Exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Crisis of Environmental Rhetoric?

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Summoning earth and fire: The energy development implications of Grameen Shakti (GS) in Bangladesh

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Sustainability principles of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) energy policy: An opportunity for greater future synergies

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Sustainability, shale gas, and energy transition in China: Assessing barriers and prioritizing strategic measures

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Sweet nectar of the Gaia: Lessons from Ethiopia's “Project Gaia”

Symbolic convergence and the hydrogen economy

The Dirty Energy Dilemma

book by Benjamin K. Sovacool

The Future Promise of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Integration: A Sociotechnical Review and Research Agenda

The Governance of Energy Megaprojects

scholarly article published 2013

The Hidden Factors That Make Wind Energy Cheaper than Natural Gas in the United States

scholarly article by Donald McCubbin & Benjamin K. Sovacool published November 2011 in The Electricity Journal

The avian and wildlife costs of fossil fuels and nuclear power

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The avian benefits of wind energy: A 2009 update

The barriers to energy efficiency in China: Assessing household electricity savings and consumer behavior in Liaoning Province

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The complexity of climate justice

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The contested politics of the Asian atom: peripheralisation and nuclear power in South Korea and Japan

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The costs of failure: A preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907–2007

The cultural barriers to renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States

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The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, education, occupation, age, and household size on electric mobility preferences in the Nordic region

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The dynamics of global public research funding on climate change, energy, transport, and industrial decarbonisation

scientific article published in 2022

The energy-enterprise-gender nexus: Lessons from the Multifunctional Platform (MFP) in Mali

The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate

scientific article published in 2020

The geography of energy and education: Leaders, laggards, and lessons for achieving primary and secondary school electrification

The importance of comprehensiveness in renewable electricity and energy-efficiency policy

The importance of open and closed styles of energy research

The importance of scale to energy security

scientific article published in 2012

The intermittency of wind, solar, and renewable electricity generators: Technical barrier or rhetorical excuse?

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The interpretive flexibility of oil and gas pipelines: Case studies from Southeast Asia and the Caspian Sea

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The methodological challenges of creating a comprehensive energy security index

article published in 2012

The neglected social dimensions to a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) transition: a critical and systematic review

The policy challenges of tradable credits: A critical review of eight markets

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The political economy of climate adaptation

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool et al published July 2015 in Nature Climate Change

The political economy of energy poverty: A review of key challenges

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The political economy of oil and gas in Southeast Asia: heading towards the natural resource curse?

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The political economy of pollution markets: Historical lessons for modern energy and climate planners

article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published September 2015 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

The political economy of technological capabilities and global production networks in South Africa's wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries

The problem with the “portfolio approach” in American energy policy

The rhetorical fantasy of energy transitions: implications for energy policy and analysis

The social acceptance of artificial photosynthesis: towards a conceptual framework

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The socio-political economy of nuclear energy in China and India

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The socio-political economy of nuclear power development in Japan and South Korea

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The socio-technical barriers to Solar Home Systems (SHS) in Papua New Guinea: “ Choosing pigs, prostitutes, and poker chips over panels ”

The trials and tribulations of the Village Energy Security Programme (VESP) in India

scholarly article by Debajit Palit et al published June 2013 in Energy Policy

The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem

scholarly article by Andreas Goldthau & Benjamin K. Sovacool published February 2012 in Energy Policy

The whole systems energy injustice of four European low-carbon transitions

scientific article published in 2019

They’ll be dammed: the sustainability implications of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) in Malaysia

Thinking big: Politics, progress, and security in the management of Asian and European energy megaprojects

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Towards a science of climate and energy choices

Twelve metropolitan carbon footprints: A preliminary comparative global assessment

Understanding attitudes toward energy security: Results of a cross-national survey

article published in 2013

Using Ecosystem Valuation to Protect the Atlantic Rainforest: The Case of the Oasis Project

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published October 2011 in Society and Natural Resources

Using criminalization and due process to reduce scientific misconduct

scientific article

Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool published August 2008 in Energy Policy

Valuing the manufacturing externalities of wind energy: assessing the environmental profit and loss of wind turbines in Northern Europe

Viability of hydrogen pathways that enhance energy security: A comparison of China and Denmark

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What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda

What moves and works: Broadening the consideration of energy poverty

What’s the state of energy studies research?: A content analysis of three leading journals from 1999 to 2008

Who governs energy? The challenges facing global energy governance

scholarly article by Ann Florini & Benjamin K. Sovacool published December 2009 in Energy Policy

Wind Turbines and Invisible Technology: Unarticulated Reasons for Local Opposition to Wind Energy

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Wrestling with the Hydra of Nuclear Waste Storage in the United States

scholarly article by Benjamin K. Sovacool & Alex Funk published March 2013 in The Electricity Journal

“Supply push” or “demand pull?”: Strategic recommendations for the responsible development of biofuel in China

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