{"title":"Adaptation and the Energy Sector","authors":"R. Lyster, M. Solis","doi":"10.4337/9781783477616.I.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477616.I.48","url":null,"abstract":"The energy sector provides a unique set of challenges in the 21st century. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report has stated, adaptation must be integrated with migration and sustainable development for the sake of 'climate-resilient' pathways. This understanding of adaptation requires an acknowledgement of the millions of people around the world who are living in a state of energy poverty, and need to be provided with access to modern energy services without being locked into greenhouse gas-intensive emissions pathways. This provides an opportunity to transform away from fossil fuel-powered energy delivered on a traditional electricity grid structure to renewable energy provided through distributed grids and facilitated by energy storage. Finally, electricity infrastructure and energy resources are at risk from slow onset and extreme weather climate disasters. Regulators are required to protect critical infrastructure from such risks including through appropriate land use planning and should consider the adoption of such technologies such as Smart Grids to build resilience.","PeriodicalId":394512,"journal":{"name":"Adelaide Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"373 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124673300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy","authors":"J. Krook","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3009146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3009146","url":null,"abstract":"The modern city is a place of social circles; clusters of contacts who know each other and strangers who don’t. It is a place where diverse relationships are in decline. In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time.' Where once we valued common courtesy, now we encourage the message of 'stranger danger.' Often we do not test this message as we grow older. Instead we live side by side with strangers, and remain firmly as ever, psychologically miles apart. \u0000In this book I attempt to address this problem. I ask the following questions: \u00001) How can we bring back mutual understanding, empathy and common concern between ourselves, strangers and other groups? \u00002) How can we reduce our instinctual urge to categorize other people? \u00003) How can we restore a sense of community into modern cities?","PeriodicalId":394512,"journal":{"name":"Adelaide Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124680602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}