Tackling Long-Term Global Energy Problems The Contribution of Social Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spreng, Daniel (Editor), Flüeler, Thomas (Editor), Goldblatt, David L. (Editor), Minsch, Jürg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Environment & Policy, 52
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Science.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Social sciences.; Energy, general.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Social Sciences, general.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change.; Science, general.

Most contemporary energy-related problems are social as much as they are technological. Yet typically, only scholars in a narrow range of social science disciplines engage in energy research.   This book makes a case for a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to energy research—one that...