Low Carbon Politics: A Cultural Approach Focusing on Low Carbon Electricity

by David Toke

Book Overview

Low Carbon Politics focuses on how policies and institutions have influenced the deployment of renewable energy and nuclear power in the electricity sector. Cultural theory is used to analyse this.

Egalitarian pressures have had a profound influence on technological outcomes, not merely in securing the deployment of renewable energy but also in increasing the costs of nuclear power. Whereas in the 1970s it might have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367889749
• ISBN13: 9780367889746
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"