Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions

By providing a new qualitative analysis of policy coherence and integration between energy, security, and defence policies between 2006 and 2023, this book analyzes the impacts of policy interplay on energy transition through the lens of sustainability transitions research, security studies, energy security and geopolitics, and policy studies. The security aspects discussed range from national defence and geopolitics, to questions of energy security, positive security, and just transitions. Findings show that the policy interface around the energy–security nexus has often been incoherent. There is a lack of integration between security aspects, leading to ineffective policies from the perspectives of decarbonization and national security, evident in the European energy crisis following the war between Russia and Ukraine. This book is intended for researchers and experts interested in the energy transition and its connections to security and defence policies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Paula Kivimaa is Research Professor in Climate and Society at the Finnish Environment Institute and Associate in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. She is an internationally renowned scholar in sustainability transitions, a coeditor of the book Innovating Climate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and a member of scientific committees advising the European Commission and the Finnish government.