Abstract
Energy security has become a heavily discussed topic due to rising energy demand worldwide, increasing import dependence in many European countries, geopolitical tensions and conflicts and the need for a regulatory and policy response. The papers collected in this volume aim at analyzing how energy security in Europe influences international relations and environmental issues with a multidisciplinary perspective, corresponding to the book three sections: international relations, focusing on Eastern EU partners; energy economics, highlighting the current unconventional hydrocarbons revolution and its impact on EU energy and climate strategies; public policy perspective, with the analysis of EU policies and two case studies. The issues considered in the volume represent a selection of hot topics in the debate that are framed together by this introductory chapter where the editors give an overview of the research themes, outline the structure of the book and summarize the contents of the individual chapters.
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Notes
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Luft et al. (2011) argue that because of complementarities and trade-offs between energy and climate security, analysis of the two issues should not be mixed. Specifically, climate change should not be factored into the energy security debate.
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See Chester (2010) and the references cited there.
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This characteristic is also acknowledged in the European Commission communication (EC 2014).
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For a discussion which stresses the roles of vulnerability and resilience, see Cherp and Jewell (2014).
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See the Commission Recommendation of 22 January 2014 (2014/70/EU) and the Communication COM (2014) 23 final.
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Acknowledgments
This book project has been supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union. It greatly benefited from the lively discussions between scholars and students during the three-year Jean Monnet Teaching Module at the “Cesare Alfieri” School of Political Science, Florence. We wish to warmly thank all the Italian and foreign colleagues who accepted our invitation to come and teach the post-graduate class on Energy, Environment and European Security; many of them are among the contributors to this book.
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Bardazzi, R., Pazienza, M.G., Tonini, A. (2016). Enhancing European Energy and Climate Security: Eastern Strategic Partners, Unconventional Sources and Public Policies. In: Bardazzi, R., Pazienza, M., Tonini, A. (eds) European Energy and Climate Security. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21302-6_1
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