The Social Impacts of Soft and Hard Energy Systems: The Lovins' Claims as a Social Science Challenge

Morrison, D.E.; Lodwick, Dora G.

doi:10.1146/annurev.eg.06.110181.002041

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“…Lovins stated that an energy path can be characterized as a complex, interactive set of mutually reinforcing, internally consistent features that together constitute an energy system; in effect, a sociotechnical system [80]. The main features and their interrelations were identified as follows:…”

Section: Thoughts On the Soft (Energy) Pathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovative technological paradigm-based approach towards biofuel feedstock

2017

Energy Conversion and Management

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Biofuels produced from renewable energy biomass are playing a more significant role because of the environmental problems resulting from the use of fossil fuels. However, a major problem with biofuel production is that despite the range of feedstock that can be used, raw material availability varies considerably. By combining a series of theories and methods, the research objective of this study is to determine the current developments and the future trends in biofuel feedstock. By combining technological paradigm theory with literature mining, it was found that biofuel feedstock production development followed a three-stage trajectory, which was in accordance with the traditional technological paradigm-the S-curve. This new curve can be divided into BFDP (biofuel feedstock development paradigm) competition, BFDP diffusion, and BFDP shift. The biofuel production diffusion velocity model showed that there has been constant growth from 2000, with the growth rate reaching a peak in 2008, after which time it began to drop. Biofuel production worldwide is expected to remain unchanged until 2030 when a paradigm shift is expected. This study also illustrates the results of our innovative procedure-a combination of the data analysis system and the technological paradigm theory-for the present biofuel feedstock soft path that

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Section: Thoughts On the Soft (Energy) Pathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovative technological paradigm-based approach towards biofuel feedstock

2017

Energy Conversion and Management

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“…Many authors working in this vein emphasize the need for appreciating the existence of multiple identities in the process of environmental governance, in order to move decision-making from "technical reason to political reason" while exploring deliberation and participation in politics as a way of "extending the public sphere" and providing a "normative basis of democracy" (Murphy 2007, 7). The role of environmental world views in the formation of the attitudes, values, and assumptions that underpin public preferences is a frequent theme in this literature (Kuhn 2008), as is the importance of scale and participation in alternative policy commitments to energy (Morrison and Lodwick 1981).…”

Section: Connecting Energy Discourse and Identity: An Uncharted Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy and Identity: Imagining Russia as a Hydrocarbon Superpower

2013

The New Geographies of Energy

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The relationship between energy systems, on the one hand, and narratives and practices of identity building at different scales, on the other, has received little attention in the mainstream human geography and social science literature. There is still a paucity of integrated theoretical insights into the manner in which energy formations are implicated in the rise of particular cultural self-determinations, even though various strands of work on energy and identity are frequently present throughout the wide-and rather disparatecorpus of social science energy research.Therefore, this paper explores the manner in which the exploitation and management of energy resources is woven into discourses and debates about national identity, international relations, as well as a nation's path of future development and its significance on the global arena in the case of Russia. We investigate some of the policies, narratives and discourses that accompany the attempt to represent this country as a global "energy superpower" in relation to the resurrection of its domestic economy and material prosperity, on the one hand, and the restoration of its global status as a derzhava (or "Great Power"), on the other.Using ideas initially developed within the field of critical discourse analysis, we pay special attention to the state-building role played by geographical imaginations about the country's past and present energy infrastructural links with, and hydrocarbon exports to, neighboring states.

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“…Many authors working in this vein emphasize the need for appreciating the existence of multiple identities in the process of environmental governance, to move decision making from "technical reason to political reason" while exploring deliberation and participation in politics as a way of "extending the public sphere" and providing a "normative basis of democracy" (Murphy 2007, 7). The role of environmental worldviews in the formation of the values and assumptions that underpin public preferences is a frequent theme in this literature (Kuhn 2008), as is the importance of scale and participation in alternative policy commitments to energy (Morrison and Lodwick 1981;Devine-Wright 2007).…”

Section: Connecting Energy Discourse and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%