Benjamin K Sovacool

Visions of Energy Futures

Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to examine the visions, fantasies, expectations, and rhetoric associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems-shale gas, clean coal, nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, smart meters, and electric vehicles-playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367112004
• ISBN-10: 0367112000
• Artikelnr.: 55433060

Autorenporträt

Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, UK. He is also Professor of Business & Social Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he also directs the Centre on Energy Technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Visions and futures in the study of low-carbon energy
systems
2. Technological utopianism: Small modular reactors and the physics
community
3. Symbolic convergence: Hydrogen fuel cells and the engineering
community
4. Technological frames: The interpretive flexibility of shale gas in
Eastern Europe
5. Discursive coalitions: Contesting clean coal in South Africa
6. Sociotechnical imaginaries: Smart meters and the public in the United
Kingdom
7. Expectations: Electric mobility and experts in the Nordic region
8. Conclusion: Dimensions, dichotomies and frameworks for energy futures
Index