The landscape and logic of energy-society interactions from a geographical perspective: Interpretation and review of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2024.08.20240589

Abstract

Abstract:

The interaction between energy and society is characterized by a complex and multidimensional dynamic. The uneven development of energy production and consumption, vulnerability, and transformation processes, along with factors such as globalization, urbanization, international development, and social justice, all shape the changes in the energy system regarding resource, economic, infrastructural, and geopolitical landscapes. The study of energy geographies focuses on issues such as energy accessibility, energy security, and low-carbon transitions. It aims to reveal the critical impact of energy on social sustainable development and to explore the profound logic of the interaction between energy and society. Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective is a comprehensive work in the field of energy geography, encompassing three interrelated sections: energy, spaces, and flows; securities, vulnerabilities, and justice; and transitions, governance, and futures. This book emphasizes the social embeddedness of energy systems through a critical perspective, placing energy issues in a broad social and historical context. It explores how energy systems and social structures shape each other and includes numerous case studies, making it an important reference for academic research in energy geography and related policy studies. In the future, China's energy geography research can be strengthened in the following four areas: the multi-scalar nature of energy decision-making, the social and spatial diversity of consumption practices, the cross-border nature of China's energy economy, and the diversification of actors in the transition.

Key words: energy geography, critical perspective, energy transition, energy security, geopolitics

摘要：

能源与社会之间存在复杂而多维的互动格局与逻辑。能源生产和消费的不平衡发展、脆弱性及转型过程，全球化、城市化、国际发展及社会正义等因素，都在塑造着能源系统在资源、经济、基础设施和地缘政治格局中的变迁。能源地理研究聚焦能源可及性、能源安全和低碳转型等问题，旨在揭示能源对社会可持续发展的关键影响，探究能源与社会互动的深刻逻辑，主要涵盖三个相互关联的部分：能源、空间和流动，安全、脆弱和正义，转型、治理和未来。能源与社会的研究主要通过大量案例分析系统剖析能源系统的社会嵌入特征，将能源问题置于广泛的社会和历史背景中，探讨能源系统和社会结构如何相互塑造，为能源地理学术研究和相关政策研究提供重要参考。英国皇家地理学会能源研究组的创始人共同撰写的《能源与社会：思辨性透视》是能源地理研究的集大成之作，对以上问题提供了丰富的理论与实证借鉴。为此本文从能源与社会关系入手，对其进行解读与评述，期待能够为能源与社会的研究提供思辨性思考。在此评述的基础上，进一步提出未来中国的能源地理研究的四个关键议题，即能源决策的多尺度特征、消费实践的社会空间多样性、中国能源经济的跨境性质及转型行动者的多元化。

关键词: 能源地理, 思辨性, 能源转型, 能源安全, 地缘政治

Yu YANG, Yue GUO. The landscape and logic of energy-society interactions from a geographical perspective: Interpretation and review of Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective[J]. World Regional Studies, 2024, 33(8): 77-86.

杨宇, 郭越. 地理学视角下的能源-社会互动格局与逻辑[J]. 世界地理研究, 2024, 33(8): 77-86.

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