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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Energy Politics"”.
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And Chaos Whence? Canadian Energy Politics, 1973-1984
… as to how years of tranquility in global energy markets framed projections and decision-making. Chapter two reviews publications by various branches of the federal government to reveal the difficulty of reconciling political, economic, energy, and environmental concerns against the …
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Sociotechnical imaginary and rationality : political factuality and public authority in Taiwanese energy politics
… in Taiwanese society demanding a sustainable energy transition. However, the dominant sociotechnical imagination in postwar Taiwan – developmental high modernism – manifests itself in tacit answers to the questions of what a better society should be, how technical choices should be made to …
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Spatial dimensions of energy politics: Geography and equity in the Illinois energy transition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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THE DECLINE OF COAL? THE HOLCOMB POWER PLANT INCIDENT, THE AMERICAN STATES, AND ENERGY POLITICS
… The resource once held a dominant role in the energy market at the national and subnational level, and was capable of adapting to the federal and state air regulatory regimes and was cheap, abundant, and reliable. However, new rules by the Environmental Protection Agency, challenges at the …
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The Oil Weapon Moment: The 1973 Oil Embargo and its Impacts on U.S. Energy Politics
… of the 1973 Arab petrostate oil embargo on U.S. energy politics. I argue that the embargo was the moment that transformed oil from a domestic and highly regulated commodity into a matter of national security and competitive geopolitics. While its likelihood was foreseen by the Nixon …
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Multi-Triangulation Using Qualitative and Crossover Methods to Investigate The Role of Media in Fossil Energy Politics
… the continuum of media studies as they relate to energy and politics, which have always been entwined. With each new source of energy or technology, a new form of social dynamics emerges. This study explores the role of media, during the Pennsylvania coal strike of 1902 and the ensuing shifts in …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… of lowered expectations for our environmental politics relate to the realism of literary representation, which has largely ceded the task of depicting environmental crisis to non-realist genres like science fiction and apocalypse? What exactly is the “reality” named by these political and …
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Through the Looking Glass: Evaluating Chinese Influence in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative
… its specific impact on Central Asia, focusing on energy politics, water management, regional identities, and the involvement of major global powers. The study critiques mainstream International Relations (IR) theories, highlighting their limitations in addressing Central Asian geopolitics, and …
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Examining the market and regulatory dynamics behind the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project
… policy that has been slow to embrace renewable energy, an opportunity to take a leadership position in the development of this zero-carbon resource. One explanation for the CVOW project's emergence is the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DIT), which relates the rate of adoption of novel solutions …
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Federal giants and wind energy entrepreneurs: utility-scale windpower in America 1970-1990
… pollution pushed utilities to include renewable energy in their resource· plans. Both tendencies advanced windpower. By comparing the Federal Wind Energy Program (FWEP) to California's entrepreneurial windpower industry, this dissertation argues that windpower constituted a conservative addition …
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Study of an innovative non intrusive load monitoring system for energy emancipation of domestic users: hardware and ICT optimized solutions
… uses algorithms not only to quantify how much energy is used in the home, but also to determine what main devices are being operated. NIALM algorithms need a complete load signature and complex optimization algorithms to find the right combination of single loads that fits the real electrical …
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Actually Existing Democracy and Energy Justice: The Case of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
… research examines the differential impacts of energy extraction on local communities, and what the term justice might usefully mean in the context of transnational energy politics. I provide an account of justice that engages with the theories of Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu and mines their …
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Selective solidarity: Russia's divide and conquer strategy and the impact on EU energy security
… hydrocarbon resources are a major source of energy for the European Union, natural gas in particular. Controlling energy flow gives Russia powerful leverage and Russia continues to use this to its geo-political advantage. Although the Russian economy is heavily dependent on revenue from EU …
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Unruly landscapes: politics of biodiversity, energy and livelihoods in India
… I argue that the introduction of renewable energy projects in pre-territorialized landscapes reorients spatial arrangements, resulting in a re-territorialization of these geographies. Further, I position this re-territorialization as an outcome of intense political wrangling that traverses …
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The Carbon Frame: Lobbying for Renewable Energy in the European Union
… in favor of building stronger renewable energy policies in the European Union (EU). Within the EU, carbon is widely used to speak about many of the perils of climate change, global warming, energy policy, and contingent subject matters. In political circles, media outlets, and public …