Publisher's Synopsis
Major energy facility (MEF) projects are often extensive engineering feats as well as symbols of advanced industrialization. However, in western nations, decisions about MEFs have over the last decade become increasingly controversial. This book offers a theoretical and methodological framework with which to analyse the interplay between MEF systems and society. The specific focus is on state technocracies that plan, construct, and manage large-scale energy production systems and on their relationship to, parliamentary democracy, the polity and the larger civil society. The book provides case studies of hydro-power, nuclear and North Sea oil and gas development in Norway.
