Energy syndrome: comparing national responses to the energy crisis. [emphasis on UK, USA, France, Canada, Sweden, India, Hungary]

Book · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5239281

Lindberg, L N ^[1]

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1. ed.

This book examines in some detail the shape energy policies have taken over time in seven different countries: Britian, Canada, France, Hungary, India, Sweden, and the United States. It has four principal objectives: to provide a comparative view of how and why strikingly similar patterns of energy consumption and supply developed in the postwar period; to describe the typical problem perceptions, governmental policies, patterns of private-public sector relationships, and organizational forms and routines that developed in all these countries during this period; to analyze the extent to which these consumption and supply patterns, policies and perceptions, and structures and processes have fostered or impeded the development of new energy policies more suited to the changing conditions ushered in by the oil embargo, the OPEC price actions, and the subsequent rapid escalation of the price of all forms of energy; and to provide a framework for the evaluation of the likely future consequences of the present trajectory of national energy policies and to suggest in what ways lessons of relevance for the design of alternative policies and institutional arrangements might be extracted from a comparative analysis of the policy experience of these seven countries.

• OSTI ID: 5239281
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
CANADA
ENERGY POLICY
FRANCE
HUNGARY
INDIA
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DECISION MAKING
ECONOMIC POLICY
ENERGY
EVALUATION
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
USA
ASIA
EUROPE
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
NORTH AMERICA
SCANDINAVIA
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