This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.

The volume identifies varying definitions and dimensions of energy security, including those that prioritize security of supply and affordability alongside those that emphasize availability, energy efficiency, trade, environmental quality, and social and political stewardship.　 It also explores the various metrics that can be used to give energy security more coherence, and also to enable it to be measured, including recent attempts to measure energy security progress at the national level, with a special emphasis placed on countries within the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), countries within Asia, and industrialized countries worldwide.　

This Handbook:

? Broadens existing discussions of energy security that center on access to fuels, including "oil security" and "coal security."　

? Focuses not only on the supply side of energy but also the demand, taking a hard look at energy services and politics along with technologies and infrastructure;

? Investigates energy security issues such as energy poverty, equity and access, and development;

? Analyzes ways to index and measure energy security progress at the national and international level.

This book will be of much interest to students of energy security, energy policy, economics, environmental studies, and IR/Security Studies in general.

This Handbook examines the subject of energy security: its definition, dimensions, ways to measure and index it, and the complicating factors that are often overlooked.

1 Energy security and climate change: A tenuous link 2 The fuzzy nature of energy secutiry 3 Evaluating the energy security impacts of energy policies 4 The sustainable development dimension of energy security 5 The maritime dimension of energy security 6 The public policy dimension of energy security 7 The diversification dimension of energy security 8 The environmental dimension of energy security 9 The energy poverty dimension of energy security 10 The social development dimension of energy security 11 The energy efficiency dimension of energy security 12 The energy services dimension of energy secutiry 13 The industrial dimension of energy security 14 The competing dimensions of energy security 15 Indicators ofr energy security 16 Measuring security of energy supply with two diversity indexes 17 Measuring energy security: From universal indicatiors to contextualized frameworks 18 Applying the four 'A's of energy security as criteria in an energy security ranking method 19 Measuring energy security performance in the OECD 20 Measuring energy security vulnerability