Tackling Long-Term Global Energy Problems : The Contribution of Social Science - Spreng, Daniel; Flüeler, Thomas; Goldblatt, David L.; Minsch, Jürg.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
PART I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Energy-Related Challenges -- 3. The Indispensable Role of Social Sciences in Energy Research -- PART II: Invited Contributions -- 4. What About Social Science and Interdisciplinarity? A 10-year Content Analysis of Energy Policy -- 5. Towards an Integrative Framework For Energy Transitions of Households in Developing Countries -- 6. A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Changing Household Electricity Consumption in India -- 7. The Changing Context for Efforts to Avoid the 'Curse of Oil' -- 8. Contributions of Economics and Ethics to an Assessment of Emissions Trading -- 9. No Smooth, Managed Pathway to Sustainable Energy Systems - Politics, Materiality and Visions For Wind Turbine and Biogas Technology -- 10. Technical Fixes Under Surveillance - CCS and Lessons Learned from the Governance of Long-Term Radioactive Waste Managements -- 11. Learning From the Transdisciplinary Case Study Approach: A Functional-Dynamic Approach to Collaboration Among Diverse Actors in Applied Energy Settings -- 12. Lessons from the Invited Contributions -- 13. Synthesis: Research Perspectives -- PART III -- 14. Lessons for Problem-Solving Energy Research in the Social Sciences -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Keywords: Energy; Energy policy; Energy and state; Social sciences; Sustainable development; Climate change; Energy, general; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Social Sciences, general; Sustainable Development; Climate Change; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary