The scare behind energy security: four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance

While the number of definitions and metrics of energy security have expanded rapidly (Ang et al. 2015; Sovacool and Mukherjee 2011), surprisingly little attention has been paid to its core concern: the fear of doing without. Shortages and scarcities are the problem to be solved, hardly ever the obje...