Overview
- Argues that common energy challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa could be tackled through regional cooperation
- Explores current legal and policy issues of the energy infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Provides recommendations on how to combat energy poverty
Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)
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Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have poor or no access to modern energy. Victoria Nalule argues that SSA countries have many common energy challenges which could be tackled with collective efforts through regional cooperation. By means of a legal and comparative analysis and a seven-step framework, the book explores the current regional mechanisms employed in Africa to address the challenge of energy poverty and access and whether they are effective in tackling the challenge of energy access, including regional energy infrastructure and regional energy regulations.
Chapters discuss the evolution of regionalism in SSA and the role of regional cooperation in the development of renewable energy as a means of confronting both energy access and climate change. Specifically the nexus between energy access, renewable energy and climate change is covered as well as the potential of fossil fuels in addressing energy poverty. The establishment and development of regional energy infrastructure as one of the mechanisms of addressing energy access challenges in SSA and regional efforts to harmonise energy regulation are explored. Finally a concluding chapter provides recommendations for policy makers and other relevant stakeholders on how best to implement some of the suggestions made in previous chapters. International organisations, regional organisations, government officials, scholars and students with interest in the energy sector will highly benefit from this book.
Chapters discuss the evolution of regionalism in SSA and the role of regional cooperation in the development of renewable energy as a means of confronting both energy access and climate change. Specifically the nexus between energy access, renewable energy and climate change is covered as well as the potential of fossil fuels in addressing energy poverty. The establishment and development of regional energy infrastructure as one of the mechanisms of addressing energy access challenges in SSA and regional efforts to harmonise energy regulation are explored. Finally a concluding chapter provides recommendations for policy makers and other relevant stakeholders on how best to implement some of the suggestions made in previous chapters. International organisations, regional organisations, government officials, scholars and students with interest in the energy sector will highly benefit from this book.
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Keywords
- energy access
- energy policy
- energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa
- energy security
- energy poverty
- energy regulation
- energy and gender equality
- Millennium Development Goals
- poverty eradication
- Sustainable Developmental Goals
- The East African Community (EAC)
- Why tackle energy poverty
- G20 Energy Access Action Plan
- energy efficiency in Africa
- energy nexus
- liberalisation of the energy sector
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Victoria Ritah Nalule is a researcher at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. She was previously a research fellow and energy consultant at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels, and an energy researcher at the East African Community (EAC) in Tanzania and in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Botswana.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: The role of regionalism
Authors: Victoria R. Nalule
Series Title: Energy, Climate and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95402-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95401-1Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07029-8Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95402-8Published: 27 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8561
Series E-ISSN: 2947-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 217
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Security, Environmental Geography