TY - BOOK ID - 77899035 TI - Solar energy, technology policy, and institutional values PY - 2001 SN - 1107120713 0521034299 051104626X 9786610432608 0511152698 0511302126 0511173571 0511509863 1280432608 0511012152 9780511012150 0511031017 9780511031014 9780511509865 9780521782470 9780521034296 0521782473 9781107120716 6610432600 9780511152696 9780511302121 9780511173578 9781280432606 0521782473 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Solar energy. KW - Energy policy. KW - Energy and state KW - Power resources KW - State and energy KW - Industrial policy KW - Energy conservation KW - Solar power KW - Force and energy KW - Renewable energy sources KW - Solar radiation KW - Government policy KW - Solar energy KW - Energy policy KW - E-books KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899035 AB - Energy policies that promote new technologies and energy sources are policies for the future. They influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political and economic lives. Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values demonstrates the difficulties of deliberating such properties by providing a historical case study that analyses US renewable energy policy from the end of World War II through the energy crisis of the 1970s. The book illuminates the ways beliefs and values come to dominate official problem frames and get entrenched in institutions. In doing so it also explains why advocates of renewable energy have often faced ideological opposition, and why policy makers fail to take them seriously. ER -