1st Edition
Ocean Energy Governance Challenges for Wave and Tidal Stream Technologies
1. Introduction: technology and governance
Glen Wright, Sandy Kerr and Kate Johnson
Part I Risk and economics
2. Risk and Ocean Energy
Simon Jude, Andrew Gill, Craig Mauelshagen and Edward Willsteed
3. Government Policy, Risk and Investment Timing
Shelley MacDougall
Part II Marine governance
4. Building Governance at Sea
Kate Johnson
5. Marine Planning: an ocean energy perspective
Kate Johnson and Glen Wright
6. Mare Reservarum: enclosure of the commons and the evolution of marine rights in an age of ocean industrialisation
Sandy Kerr, Kate Johnson, John Colton, Glen Wright
Part III Project consenting and regulation
7. Consenting Ocean Energy Projects: issues, challenges and opportunities
Anne Marie O’Hagan and Glen Wright
8. Consenting Ocean Energy Projects: an overview of procedures in selected jurisdictions
Anne Marie O’Hagan and Glen Wright
9. Ensuring Sustainable Development of Ocean Energy Technologies: the role of environmental assessment laws and policies
Glen Wright, Edward Willsteed, Anne Marie O’Hagan
Part IV Community and conflicts
10. A Sea of Troubles? Evaluating user conflicts in the development of ocean energy
Jiska de Groot, Kieran Reilly, John Colton, Flaxen Conway
11. Community Benefits Schemes: fair shares or token gestures?
Sandy Kerr and Stephanie Weir
12. Consultation in Ocean Energy Development
John Colton, Flaxen Conway, Bouke Wiersma, Jordan Carlson, Patrick Devine-Wright
13. Ocean Energy at the Edge
Laura Watts and Brit Ross Winthereik
Biography
Glen Wright is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI, SciencesPo), Paris, France.
Sandy Kerr is Director and Associate Professor, International Centre for Island Technology, Heriot-Watt University, based in the Orkney Islands, UK.
Kate Johnson is an Assistant Professor, International Centre for Island Technology, Heriot-Watt University, based in the Orkney Islands, UK.
"Ocean Energy is a valuable contribution to the literature and will likely assist the OE industry, policy-makers, and regulators in overcoming the governance challenges facing OE. The expert insights and solutions offered in Ocean Energy may contribute to the establishment of governance systems that facilitate sustainable OE development." - Daniel Watt, in Ocean Yearbook 33, Brill Nijhoff, 2019
