期刊
ENERGY POLICY
卷 38, 期 10, 页码 6056-6065出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.05.061
关键词
Energy scenarios; Transitions; Modelling
资金
- E.ON UK
- EPSRC
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F022832/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G007748/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F022832/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/G007748/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Scenarios have a long history in business, politics and military planning, as a tool for strategic planning to inform protective, proactive or consensus-based decision making in the face of uncertain futures. Recent years have seen a growth in scenarios for assessing the implications of low carbor futures, but relatively little work has linked these energy scenarios to the broader literature on scenario development. This paper undertakes a methodological review of a selection of UK and international low carbon scenario studies, using a typology of 'trend based', 'technical feasibility' and 'modelling' studies. Dominant methodologies in such studies have been the 2 x 2 axis and the 'back-casting' approach. Strengths of the studies reviewed include technological detail, and identification of key economic and social constraints. Weaknesses include the over-reliance on constructs such as exogenous emissions constraints, and high level trends, which diminish the ability to understand how the various future scenarios could be brought about or avoided. This is compounded by the lack of depiction of specific system actors; the tendency to abstract policy from the scenarios; and the resulting failure to consider policy, technology and behaviour in an iterative, 'co-evolving' fashion. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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