What Is Energy Security? Economic, Environmental, Social, Foreign Policy, Technical and Security Dimensions
Article from: OGEL 3 (2008), in Energy Security
Introduction
The first three installments* of this series have established some parameters that lead to a better understanding of the concept of energy security. In this article I identify six competing dimensions of energy security for both energy-consuming and energy-producing countries in order to reach a comprehensive and clear definition of the term. These dimensions are economic, environmental, social, foreign policy, technical, and security. They reflect the integration of energy policy into other policies and vice versa. Balancing these dimensions within an energy policy is a very ...