Solar energy, technology policy, and institutional values /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laird, Frank N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Note on sources and archival abbreviations
  • Introduction: solar energy, ideas, and public policy
  • Framing the energy problem before the energy crisis
  • Creating policy for the future
  • Advocates construct solar technology
  • Solar energy's incompatibility with official problem frames
  • Problem frames during the energy crisis
  • Solar advocacy in the crisis
  • Limited access : solar advocates and energy policy frames
  • Solar policy in crisis
  • - New technologies, old ideas, and the dynamics of public policy
  • Notes
  • Index.