Transitions to Alternative Energy Systems: Entrepreneurs, New Technologies, and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780367215088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 314 str.

Thomas Baumgartner

Opis

The industrial world was built to run on cheap oil and now that has run out. For a while longer, the West will depend for its energy upon expensive oil but in the very near future, the world must shift from oil to other sources of energy. TRANSITIONS TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS explores how such change can best be encouraged.

Spis treści

Foreword: Toward a Sustainable Future -- Preface -- The Shaping of Alternative Energy Systems -- Introduction -- Technology, Society, and Social Change -- Consumer-Oriented Technologies -- Solar Branch Development in Israel -- Solar Water Heating in California: Policy Evolution and Industry Development -- Wind Energy in Denmark -- Heat Pump Use in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Producer-Oriented Technologies -- Geothermal Electricity in California -- Wood for Industrial Energy in Northern New England -- Peat for Energy in Finland: History of a Development Process -- Analysis, Theory, and Normative Conclusions -- Selective Observations -- Toward a Theory of New Technological Developments -- Policy and Normative Implications

O autorze

Dr. Thomas Baumgartner is presently working as a research consultant based in Zurich.  Tom R. Burns is professor of sociology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and head of policy research at SIFO, the Swedish Institute for Opinion Research.