In Search of Good Energy Policy

Drawing on political science, economics, philosophy, theology, social anthropology, history, management studies, law, and other subject areas, In Search of Good Energy Policy brings together leading academics from across the social sciences and humanities to offer an innovative look at why science and technology, and the type of quantification they champion, cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making in the future. Featuring world-class researchers from the University of Cambridge and other leading universities around the world, this innovative book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue in which scientists and practitioners reach across institutional divides to offer their perspectives on the relevance of multi-disciplinary research for 'real world' application. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding how multidisciplinary research and collaboration is essential to crafting good energy policy.

Marc Ozawa is an associated researcher of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge. His current research examines the role of trust in international relations, NATO-Russian relations and Russian, East European and Eurasian affairs. Jonathan Chaplin is a specialist in political theology and a member of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy' Project. He was Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, based in Cambridge, from 2006 to 2017. Currently an independent scholar, he is a member of the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian think-tank Cardus and a consultant researcher for the London-based religion and society think-tank Theos. Michael Pollitt is Professor of Business Economics at the Cambridge Judge Business School in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is chair of the 'In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy' Grand Challenge initiative of Energy@Cambridge and an Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG). David Reiner is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on energy and climate change politics, policy, economics, regulation and public attitudes, with a particular focus on social license to operate. Paul Warde is a Reader in Environmental History at the University of Cambridge, previously having been Professor of Environmental History at the University of East Anglia. His previous publications include The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870 (2018); The Environment: A History of the Idea (2018); and Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries (2013).