Fantastic Futures and Three American Energy Transitions

Science as Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 204-212

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a   Brossmann, Brent ^b  

^a VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy technology; energy transitions; fantasy; rhetorical construction; sociology of expectation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879042073     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.786999     Document Type: Article

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