11.165 / 11.477 Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy and Security Challenges, Fall 2009
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Polenske, Karen R.
Ratanawaraha, Apiwat
Alternative Title
Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy and Security Challenges
Date Issued
December 2009
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.
Subjects
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
MIT 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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