The Geography of Energy and the Wealth of the World

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the following geographers for suggesting some of the books considered in this essay: Andy Blowers, Marilyn Brown, Wolfgang Brücher, Stefan Buzar, Michael Heiman, Matt Huber, Scott Jiusto, Greg Knight, Peter Muller, Susan Owens, Vaclav Smil, Barry Solomon, Benjamin Sovacool, Vita Valinaité, Tom Wilbanks, and Karl Zimmerer. I am also grateful to Kimberly J. Wagner for assisting with the figure.

Notes

1. A somewhat more fugitive literature flowed as technical reports from the national laboratories. This was particularly true of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1970s and 1980s, when about a dozen energy geographers were active there at the same time, including Tom Wilbanks, Russ Lee, Marilyn Brown, Jerry Dobson, Ed Hillsman, David Greene, John Sorensen, and Bob Honea. Although their reports were not published commercially, they demonstrated the value of incorporating the work of geographers in energy analysis.

2. There is a comparable group in Europe organized within the German Society for Geography, one that focuses specifically on the geography of energy. See http://www.geographische-energieforschung.de/.

3. For the 1978–1979 academic year, Chapman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

4. As if to reinforce this idea, the reader is referred to a listing of books on energy geography by Jean-Marie Chevalier found on the French Web site for Amazon books at http://www.amazon.fr/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-fr&field-author=Jean-Marie%20Chevalier#.

5. See also a special issue on energy landscapes published in the journal Landscape Research, which includes an introduction by Nadaı and van der Horst (2010).

6. Other geographers with long and consistent records of publication include Andrew Blowers, Marilyn Brown, Wolfgang Brucher, John Chapman, David Greene, Bruce Hannon, Robert Kaufmann, Michael Kuby, Gerald Manners, Bernadette Merenne-Schoumaker, Peter Odell, Martin Pasqualetti, Mathias Ruth, Vaclav Smil, Barry Solomon, and Derek Spooner. A somewhat younger generation of scholars, too numerous to list in full here, includes Rob Bailis, Patrick Devine-Wright, Michael Heiman, Scott Jiusto, Anelia Milbrandt, Alain Nadaı, Dan van der Horst, and Charles Warren.

7. The reader is also referred to the many publications on the geography of energy by Robert E. Ebel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.