At the root of energy policy are fundamental questions about the sort of social and environmental futures in which people want to live and how decisions over different energy pathways and energy futures are made. The interdisciplinary field of political ecology has the capacity to address such questions, while also challenging how energy policy conventionally gets done. We outline a political ecology perspective on EU energy policy that illuminates how the distribution of social power affects access to energy services, participation in energy decision- making and the allocation of energy's environmental and social costs.
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Bridge, G., Barca, S., özkaynak, B., Turhan, E., & Wyeth, R. (2018). Towards a political ecology of EU energy policy. In Advancing Energy Policy: Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (pp. 163–175). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2_11
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