Images of the energy future

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15548867
AutoresA Mason (0000-0003-3381-3625, University of Calgary, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas014002-014002
Fecha de publicación2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Research Letters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326
EditorialIOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014002
OpenAlexW2103528018
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas4

This letter draws attention to the aesthetic fascination for images of the energy future and the role of knowledge about the future in organizing energy policy and planning. Envisioning the energy future, once intertwined with notions of progress, has become synonymous with conceptions of risk while efforts to manage risk are an open-ended, future-oriented project. I argue that today's images of the energy future reflect a change in US energy prediction over the past 30 years that can be traced to the birth of a system of energy forecasting on the basis of a narrow organization of experience to the 1970s energy crisis

Energy (signal processing · Energy policy · Energy system · Epistemology · Renewable energy · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Engineering · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Philosophy