Frank N. Laird

Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses US renewable energy policy from World War II through 1970s energy crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521782470
• ISBN-10: 0521782473
• Artikelnr.: 21035633

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on sources and archival abbreviations
Introduction: solar energy, ideas and public policy
Part I. Before the Energy Crisis: 1. Framing the energy problem before the energy crisis
2. Creating policy for the future
3. Advocates construct solar technology
4. Solar energy's incompatibility with official problem frames
Part II. During the Energy Crisis: 5. Problem frames during the energy crisis
6. Solar advocacy in the crisis
7. Limited access: solar advocates and energy policy frames
8. Solar policy in crisis
9. New technologies, old ideas and the dynamics of public policy
Notes
Index.