Health and safety impacts of nuclear, geothermal, and fossil-fuel electric generation in California. Volume 1. Health and safety impacts of nuclear, geothermal, and fossil-fuel electric generation in California

Between 2010 and 2017, the New Zealand Government undertook a range of subtle yet disturbing tactics to create a legislative environment that enabled deep sea oil exploration. This included forms of public endorsement, policy documents and legislative change that prioritised further oil development in the country to create a certain common-sense around increased fossil fuel extraction. In response, a range of communities and autonomous Oil Free groups have emerged to contest both the legislative changes and this underlying common-sense. We draw on this example to respond to calls within geography and political science literature to situate analysis of contemporary politics in empirical contexts. We use Rancière’s thought combined with the frames of politicisation, depoliticisation and repoliticisation to explore the entangled nature of government and oil industry actions, and community climate change activism. We argue that while there were clearly attempts by government and the oil industry to close down spaces of dissent and limit debate around fossil fuel development to technocratic questions of health and safety, the effects of attempts at closure are paradoxical. Such attempts at closure are always incomplete and at times, mobilise people to contestatory action. We show how activists have strategically drawn on certain discourses to exert claims of, and for, equality in public debates around the pressing issue of climate change.

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The non-fossil/fossil fuel mexican energy investment policy case: An alternative system dynamics goal seeking planning model

Ingeniería Investigación y Tecnología ◽

10.22201/fi.25940732e.2019.20n4.045 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Rogerio Domenge Muñoz

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

System Dynamics ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Fossil Fuel ◽

Investment Policy ◽

Planning Model ◽

Decision Support Model ◽

Energy Investment ◽

Generation Capacity ◽

Electric Generation

There are increasing concerns in México regarding CO2 emissions, due to the use of fossil fuel based electric generation. Recently, several laws have been passed with the objective of increase the non-fossil participation in the energy portfolio mix. Although several objectives have been established, these would be hard to achieve if investments should continue to be directed mainly to fossil fuel technologies. This article presents a system dynamics decision support model, as an alternative method to the traditional modelling approaches. The model is used to assess the generation capacity requirements and to evaluate them in several simulated scenarios.

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The creation of a Handbook of Chemical Health and Safety

Chemical Health and Safety ◽

10.1016/s1074-9098(01)00232-5 ◽

2002 ◽

Keyword(s):

Health And Safety ◽

The Creation

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