After the Fall: Energy Security, Sustainable Development, and the Environment

This edited volume examines the impacts of the 2014-2015 decline in the price of oil. Participants will examine the economic, social and political consequences on states and regions, along with their responses. The following questions will be examined: what were the impacts for countries experiencing an energy revolution in shale and gas like the United States and Canada? What were the repercussions of the collapse on other states of the Western hemisphere dependent on oil for growth and development; countries like Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico? Were these outcomes similar to those experiences in other parts of world like Nigeria, Russia and other petro-producing countries? How do developing countries intend to cope with such drastic and sudden exogenous economic shock? Will there be any benefits for energy poor, consumer countries like China, India and European Union member states? Related to these issues are sustainable developmental questions and concerns about the environment. Will cheap oil force other alternative and renewable energy technologies out of the market given lack of competitiveness? Finally, the volume’s chapters will discuss prospects for governance in the new oil environment.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - Caribbean Energy Outlook – Anthony Bryan Chapter 2 - Transitioning to Clean Energy in Central America - Christian Gomez Chapter 3 - Will Argentina Go The Way of Venezuela? How Energy Profits Pose a Risk to Argentine Democracy - Gonzalo Molina Chapter 4 - Commodity crisis in Colombia: A Reform Catalyst for an Exhausted Development -Model Andres Cala Chapter 5 - After the Fall of Petrobras: Too Big to Fail ? Energy Policy in Brazil Afterwards - Marcelo Zorovich Chapter 6 - Sustainable agriculture landscapes for production of biofuels in Brazil - José Maria Cardoso da Silvaa and Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa Chapter 7 - The European Union and Climate Change - The Post-COP21 World - Maxime Larive Chapter 8 - China’s Activities in the Petroleum, Renewable Energy, and Transmission Sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean - R. Evan Ellis Chapter 9 - Chinese Oil Investments in Peru and Ecuador : Social Responsibility, Host Government Regulations and Host Civil Society - Wenyan Wu Chapter 10 - The Fall of Energy Prices and Aggressive Foreign Policy the Case of Russia: Dina Moulioukova Chapter 11 - Oil, political stability and the Middle East - Herbert Reginbogin Chapter 12 - Sectarianism, Shale and Market-Share: Saudi Arabia and the American Challenge: Bradford McGuinn Chapter 13 - Opposing Extractivism: Social Movements for Rights and Sustainability: Laura Carlsen Chapter 14 - The BRICS Bank and Systemic Transformation in Energy: Hanna Samir Kassab

About the Author :
Bruce Bagley is professor of international studies at the University of Miami. Suzanne Loftus is a teaching and research assistant in the Program of International Studies at the University of Miami. Hanna Kassab is visiting assistant professor of political science at Northern Michigan University, Marquette. Dina Moulioukova is a lecturer of international studies at the University of Miami.

Review :
After the Fall: Energy Security, Sustainable Development and the Environment, edited by Bruce Bagley et al., provides an excellent overview of the issues associated with energy security and sustainable economic development. It is the third volume on global energy issues to emerge from the collaboration of a team of scholars assembled by Bruce M. Bagley at the University of Miami. The editors and contributors have become established experts on the issues concerned and provide valuable assessments of developments in regional and global energy policies and their implications for environmentally-sound economic development. In this unique book on the political economy and security of energy, the editors and contributors provide a fresh and insightful analysis of the multifaceted consequences (winners and losers) of the 2014 oil prices collapse.