11.165 / 11.477 Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy and Security Challenges, Fall 2009

Polenske, Karen R.; Ratanawaraha, Apiwat

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Polenske, Karen R.; Ratanawaraha, Apiwat

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Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy and Security Challenges

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Abstract

The purpose of this seminar is to examine efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions to create, finance and regulate infrastructure systems and services that affect energy security. We will introduce a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. During the seminar, students will explore how an energy crisis can be an opportunity for making fundamental changes to improve collapsing infrastructure networks. The sessions will be used to introduce the challenges to modern society concerning energy security, and for students to study how food security and energy security are intertwined, as well as how infrastructure supports the energy system. We will review the moral hazard aspects of infrastructure and the common arguments for withholding adequate support to the rebuilding of energy systems. Students taking the graduate version will complete additional assignments.

Date issued

2009-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75807

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society; MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies; MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies

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11.165-Fall2009

local: 11.165

local: 11.477

local: IMSCP-MD5-69036451057024891c2ee2593b39316a

Keywords

Energy infrastructure, energy crisis, energy security, economics of public goods and infrastructure, Infrastructure development, infrastructure policy, infrastructure financing, energy system, food security, political economy of energy, long term development of energy, infrastructure financing, infrastructure delivery

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