Reacting to anticipations : energy crises and energypolicy in the 1970s ; an introduction

摘要

Changes in the energy sector cannot besufficiently described as reactions to past and present energy problems. Rather,politicians and companies alike always react to the anticipation of future challenges.Sharing this assumption, the articles in this HSR Special Issue reexaminethe energy crises of the 1970s. Their assessments broaden the temporaland spatial scope of analysis and integrate various energy resources intothe picture, while examining how to situate the first and second oil crises withinthe 1970s and the contemporary history of the industrialized world as awhole.