Eames, M, Mcdowall, W, Hodson, M and Marvin, S 2006, 'Negotiating contested visions and place-specific expectations of the hydrogen economy' , Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 18 (3-4) , pp. 361-374.

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Abstract

This paper explores the role of the `hydrogen economy' as a guiding vision encompassing multiple contested technological futures, value judgements and problem framings. Hydrogen visions draw upon six overarching and competing narrative themes: power and independence; community empowerment and democratisation; ecotopia; hydrogen as technical fix; inevitability and technical progress; and `staying in the race'. In other words the hydrogen economy possesses great interpretive flexibility. This, it is argued, is the key to hydrogen's rhetorical power, allowing it to become a space in which divergent interests and agendas are promoted. Turning to issues of scale and place, the case of London is used to document the dynamics of expectations: how the open flexible guiding vision of a hydrogen economy must inevitably be re-invented and grounded in local agendas and contexts if its promise is to become realised.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Built and Human Environment
Schools:	Colleges and Schools > College of Science & Technology Colleges and Schools > College of Science & Technology > School of the Built Environment Colleges and Schools > College of Science & Technology > School of the Built Environment > Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF)
Journal or Publication Title:	Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	0953-7325
Depositing User:	Users 29196 not found.
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2011 17:02
Last Modified:	25 Aug 2011 10:54
URI:	http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/16825

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