Improving Energy Decisions
Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System
Authors: Droste-Franke, B., Carrier, M., Kaiser, M., Schreurs, M., Weber, C., Ziesemer, Th.
Free Preview- Tackles ethical and social issues of the transition to a low-carbon energy system
- Guides through the various challenges of scientific advisors to politics
- Creates awareness for conflicting interests, interdisciplinary and multi-factorial issues and pitfalls
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- About this book
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Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society.
The main foci of the book are, thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the improvement of such studies.
The book provides assistance to the interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the interested public in designing procedures for a successful transition process. The study elaborates consistent interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities, multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of knowledge about future developments.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Framework for the Development of a Long-Term Viable Energy System
Pages 5-34
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Prospects and Limits of Scientific Policy Advice for Future Energy Systems
Pages 35-67
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Characterisation of Recent Energy System Analyses
Pages 69-140
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Specific Economic Problems and Uncertainties in the Context of Energy Systems
Pages 141-174
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Improving Energy Decisions
- Book Subtitle
- Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System
- Authors
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- Bert Droste-Franke
- M. Carrier
- M. Kaiser
- Miranda Schreurs
- Christoph Weber
- Thomas Ziesemer
- Series Title
- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
- Series Volume
- 42
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-11346-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-11346-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-11345-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38564-8
- Series ISSN
- 1860-4803
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XLIII, 257
- Number of Illustrations
- 19 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
- Topics
