{"id":28352,"date":"2019-03-26T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=28352"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:35:21","slug":"delina-authors-book-chapter-on-politics-of-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2019\/03\/26\/delina-authors-book-chapter-on-politics-of-sustainable-development-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Delina Authors Book Chapter on Politics of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/post-doctoral-associates\/laurence-l-delina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2015\/07\/laurence-delina1-e1437071536446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22440\" \/>Laurence Delina<\/a><span>, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a chapter in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190861360.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780190861360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190861360.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780190861360-e-29?rskey=8Xdstp&amp;result=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Politics of Energy and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190861360.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780190861360-e-29?rskey=8Xdstp&amp;result=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chapter<\/a>, Delina explores the politics surrounding the 7th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7), which calls for access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy for all by 2030. He argues that the pursuit of SDG7 does not take place in a vacuum, but rather\u00a0&#8220;is a process rife with contentious and messy exercises, in which technical materiality interacts with power, discourse, and behavioral, social, and institutional forces.&#8221; Delina puts forth a research agenda centered around the politics of energy systems and sustainable development, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the world&#8217;s most energy poor region.<\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordhandbooks.com\/view\/10.1093\/oxfordhb\/9780190861360.001.0001\/oxfordhb-9780190861360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handbook<\/a>, which is edited by\u00a0<\/span>Kathleen J. Hancock (Colorado School of Mines) and\u00a0Juliann Allison (University of California, Riverside),\u00a0<span>is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a post-doctoral associate at the Pardee Center, Delina leads\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/research\/the-future-of-energy-systems-in-developing-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interdisciplinary research project<\/a>\u00a0exploring the plausible pathways for achieving energy security in developing countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. 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