Tackling Long-Term Global Energy Problems

1. Introduction
David L. Goldblatt, Jürg Minsch, Thomas Flüeler, Daniel Spreng

2. Energy-Related Challenges
Thomas Flüeler, David L. Goldblatt, Jürg Minsch, Daniel Spreng

3. The Indispensable Role of Social Science in Energy Research
Jürg Minsch, David L. Goldblatt, Thomas Flüeler, Daniel Spreng

4. What About Social Science and Interdisciplinarity? A 10-Year Content Analysis of Energy Policy

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Saleena Saleem, Anthony Louis D’Agostino, Catherine Regalado Ramos, Kirsten Trott, Yanchun Ong

5. Towards an Integrative Framework for Energy Transitions of Households in Developing Countries
Shonali Pachauri, Daniel Spreng

6. A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Changing Household Electricity Consumption in India
Harold Wilhite

7. The Changing Context for Efforts to Avoid the ‘Curse of Oil’
Jill Shankleman

8. Contributions of Economics and Ethics to an Assessment of Emissions Trading
Adrian Muller

9. No Smooth, Managed Pathway to Sustainable Energy Systems – Politics, Materiality and Visions for Wind Turbine and Biogas Technology
Ulrik Jørgensen

10. Technical Fixes Under Surveillance – CCS and Lessons Learned from the Governance of Long-Term Radioactive Waste Management
Thomas Flüeler

11. Learning from the Transdisciplinary Case Study Approach: A Functional-Dynamic Approach to Collaboration Among Diverse Actors in Applied Energy Settings
Michael Stauffacher, Pius Krütli, Thomas Flüeler, Roland W. Scholz

12. Lessons from the Invited Contributions
Daniel Spreng, David L. Goldblatt

13. Synthesis: Research Perspectives
David L. Goldblatt, Daniel Spreng, Thomas Flüeler, Jürg Minsch

14. Lessons for Problem-Solving Energy Research in the Social Sciences
Jürg Minsch, Thomas Flüeler, David L. Goldblatt, Daniel Spreng

Keywords: Energy, Energy, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Social Sciences, general, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Science, general