CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
Energy and Society : An American View by Lee Schipper = xi
Introduction : the connecting thread = 1
1.Swedish energy policy : today, yesterday, tomorrow = 3
2. Getting away from today's energy systems = 9
Introduction = 9
The flow of energy on earth = 9
Society, energy use, and welfare = 12
Society's energy sources = 14
3. Toward tomorrow's energy systems = 21
Historial transitions of energy sources = 21
Conceivable future energy sources = 24
The transition : time perspective, mechanisms, and distribution of powers = 29
The terms of transition = 35
4. Limits to freedom of action = 43
Introduction = 43
How much energy do we really need? = 46
What types of energy do we need? = 48
Can we control the energy supply system? = 50
5. Energy policy : on goal conflicts in social organization = 54
Introduction = 54
Energy and economics = 56
Energy and environment = 73
Energy and geographic structure = 77
Energy and foreign policy = 81
6. Choice of energy carriers and freedom of action in energy opligy = 87
Introduction = 87
Energy quality = 88
The choice of energy carrier = 91
Alternative energy systems = 94
7. Energy and social organization = 98
Introduction = 98
The dynamics of Technological change : some attitudes about how technologies are chosen = 99
Technical and organizational change : example from the electricity sector = 102
Expansion : is it built in? = 109
Organizations and uncertainty = 113
A few words about the interorganizational system of rules = 116
On the role of Parliament and Cabinet = 121
Supporting activities required for the various solution = 124
Organizational design for freedom of action : is there one? = 126
8. Nuclear power in Sweden's energy future : commitments and alternatives = 136
Introduction = 136
Establishing nuclear power : pushing and pulling = 136
Swedish energy policy in the '70s : from consent to dissent = 139
Long-term supply alternatives = 144
Solar Sweden = 149
Interrupting the momentum = 158
Politics of an open-ended policy = 162
Bibliography = 165
Index = 169
