Chapter 2: Energy Security: Concepts, Frameworks and Indicators

This chapter reviews three aspects of research on energy security: the concepts of energy policy and energy security; frameworks established to assess a country’s energy security situation; and the indicators used to quantitatively evaluate a country’s energy security. Section 2.1 focuses on existing research on the concept of energy policy and energy security. Energy security assessment frameworks in particular are reviewed to establish the 4-As framework used in this book to analyse China’s energy security situation. Section 2.2 explains the comprehensive concept of energy security which this book has constructed step by step. Section 2.3 reviews the energy security indicators, based on which China’s energy security indicators are selected and constructed in Chapter 3. Section 2.4 gives a brief summary of this chapter.