Research Catalog

Title

Energy possibilities : rethinking alternatives and the choice-making process / Jesse S. Tatum.

Author

Tatum, Jesse S., 1952-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.

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Details

Description

xiii, 159 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Using the perspectives of science, technology, and society studies, this book grapples with questions stimulated by a concern that current energy policies and practices reflect neither the best interests of ordinary people nor decision-making consistent with the traditions and aspirations of democracy. Probing the depths of assumptions made in traditional analysis and assembling minority views, present practices come into focus as startlingly narrow social constructs amidst a vast unexplored terrain of material and socio-cultural possibilities. Questions of power and responsible action are pursued in this context, casting both traditional decision makers and citizens in less than a positive light. The author includes an examination of the experience of the "home power" movement not as "The Solution" to our energy problems, but as a concrete illustration of alternative theory and practice, and of the range of possibilities inherent in energy decisions. The book aims not at recommendations for prescriptive public policy, but primarily at refocusing the reader's attentions, as ultimate policy maker, on the core of the energy question: How do we wish to live in the world?

Series Statement

SUNY series in science, technology, and society

Uniform Title

SUNY series in science, technology, and society

Subject

• Power resources
• Energy policy
• energy resources
• Energiepolitik
• Energiequelle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-155) and index.

Contents

1. Raising the Question -- 2. So Much Fuss over Energy? -- 3. Surely the Experts Have Thought the Matter Out -- 4. With Troubles Enough, Experts Differ -- 5. The Shaping of Responses -- 6. Exploring the Option Space -- 7. Where Does This Leave Us?

ISBN

• 0791425959
• 9780791425954
• 0791425967
• 9780791425961

LCCN

94037133

OCLC

• ocm31331534
• 31331534
• SCSB-2065488

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library