Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values

by Frank N. Laird

Book Overview

Energy policies that promote new technologies and energy sources are policies for the future. They influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political and economic lives. Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values demonstrates the difficulties of deliberating such properties by providing a historical case study that analyses US renewable energy policy from the end of World War II through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521034299
• ISBN13: 9780521034296
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"