Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 31, Issue , 2017, Pages 50-59

  Asayama, Shinichiro ^a   Ishii, Atsushi ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon capture and storage (CCS); Energy transition; Media; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020630480     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.010     Document Type: Article

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