ISBN:
9791035103040
Language:
French
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English
Pages:
391 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Publications de la Sorbonne. Homme et société 62
Series Statement:
Publications de la Sorbonne. Série Histoire environnementale 4
DDC:
333
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
"In times of global warming, nuclear disasters and the search for ways to "decarbonise" our economies, no one doubts that energy issues are crucial for our societies. The idea that their study may concern the human and social sciences is much less consensual. Energy is an eminently social issue. What is problematic, in fact, is not so much the amount of energy at our disposal (the sun gives us much more than we use it) but the way it is mobilized and shared, social issues excellency. The evolution of humanity's relation to energy can not be reduced to a linear narrative of the technical innovations that have made it possible to exploit a given resource or to implement a converter more effective than those available. before. An energy system is always underpinned by political, economic and social structures and choices. To understand how industrialized societies have arrived at the energy system they claim - in the best of cases - to want to go out, we need to understand how they came in, and for that, to study the history of the relationship of societies to the world. energy in time. This is the story explored by the twenty-three contributions gathered here. They try to show the stakes of energy mobilization and expenditure, the interests that underlie them, the actors who have benefited from the choices made and those who have suffered from them, the influence of these choices on health, the environment and the way of life. The complexity of energy systems and transitions is revealed in these analyzes, from medieval Scotland in contemporary Cameroon to Spain's first 20th century."--Publisher's website (translation)
Note:
" ... le colloque sur l'histoire de l'énergie dont ce livre est issu ..."
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Beiträge teilweise französisch, teilweise englisch
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