Ecological modernisation and renewable energy
By: David Toke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780230224261
Subjects: Energy development; Renewable energy sources; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Energy policy
Description: "Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy. 'Identity EM' concerns how an industry has arisen allied to environmental NGOs to challenge the ascendancy of conventional energy technologies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Revising Ecological Modernisation Theory; title: Renewable Energy: a new identity and a new industry; title: California- The Growth of a Renewables Industry; title: USA: Consolidation of a Renewables Industry?; title: Germany, Spain, UK, Australia and China; title: Conclusion.