Tackling Long-Term Global Energy Problems (eBook)

Part I1. IntroductionDavid L. Goldblatt, Jürg Minsch, Thomas Flüeler, and Daniel Spreng2. Energy-Related ChallengesThomas Flüeler, David L. Goldblatt, Jürg Minsch, and Daniel Spreng 3. The Indispensable Role of Social Science in Energy ResearchJürg Minsch, David L. Goldblatt, Thomas Flüeler, and Daniel Spreng Part IIInvited ContributionsDavid L. Goldblatt, Thomas Flüeler, Jürg Minsch, and Daniel Spreng 4. What About Social Science and Interdisciplinarity? A 10-Year Content Analysis of Energy PolicyBenjamin K. Sovacool, Saleena Saleem, Anthony Louis D’Agostino, Catherine Regalado Ramos, Kirsten Trott, and Yanchun Ong 5. Towards an Integrative Framework for Energy Transitions of Households in Developing CountriesShonali Pachauri and Daniel Spreng 6. A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Changing Household Electricity Consumption in IndiaHarold Wilhite 7. The Changing Context for Efforts to Avoid the ‘Curse of Oil’Jill Shankleman 8. Contributions of Economics and Ethics to an Assessment of Emissions TradingAdrian Muller9. No Smooth, Managed Pathway to Sustainable Energy Systems – Politics, Materiality and Visions for Wind Turbine and Biogas TechnologyUlrik Jørgensen 10. Technical Fixes Under Surveillance – CCS and Lessons Learned from the Governance of Long-Term Radioactive Waste ManagementThomas Flüeler 11. Learning from the Transdisciplinary Case Study Approach: A Functional-Dynamic Approach to Collaboration Among Diverse Actors in Applied Energy SettingsMichael Stauffacher, Pius Krütli, Thomas Flüeler, and Roland W. Scholz 12. Lessons from the Invited ContributionsDaniel Spreng and David L. Goldblatt 13. Synthesis: Research PerspectivesDavid L. Goldblatt, Daniel Spreng, Thomas Flüeler, and Jürg Minsch Part III14. Lessons for Problem-Solving Energy Research in the Social SciencesJürg Minsch, Thomas Flüeler, David L. Goldblatt, and Daniel Spreng Name IndexSubject Index