Integrating the environment into energy supply and demand decisions

Completed

Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Politics and International Studies)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)

Dr CW Hope
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge

Standard

ESRC

18 February 1986

30 September 1988

31 months

£33,470

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

East of England

ESRC Energy

Dr CW Hope, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Objectives not supplied

Recent research has shown that proponents and opponents of energy plans often talk past each other with no understanding of the other point of view. This is particularly worrying at a time when environmental effects, which do not feature in the financial balance sheet of an energy project, are becoming a focus for widespread concern and protest. This project aims to discover which environmental effects are of most concern to a variety of groups, to incorporate those environmental effects into a microcomputer model for the assessment of energy supply and demand strategies, and to make the model available to those groups with interest in energy. The model will be used to explore these energy strategies, which might form the basis of acceptable compromises. In the process, information will be gathered about the ways in which microcomputer based models can help to bring understanding of other points of view than one's own.

12/09/11