TY - BOOK ID - 85294469 TI - The politics of shale gas in Eastern Europe : energy security, contested technologies and the social license to frack PY - 2018 SN - 1316875016 1316880028 1107183944 1316635228 1316877434 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Shale gas industry KW - Hydraulic fracturing KW - Energy development KW - Energy resources development KW - Energy source development KW - Power resources development KW - Power resources KW - Gas industry KW - Fracking (Engineering) KW - Fracturing, Hydraulic KW - Hydrofracking KW - Hydraulic engineering KW - Rock mechanics KW - Political aspects KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85294469 AB - Fracking is a novel but contested energy technology - so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the reason for policy divergence lies in procedures and processes, stakeholder inclusion and whether a strong narrative underpins governmental policies. Based on a large set of primary data gathered in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, it explores shale gas policies in Central Eastern Europe (a region strongly dependent on Russian gas imports) to unveil the importance of policy regimes for creating a 'social license' for fracking. Its findings suggest that technology transfer does not happen in a vacuum but is subject to close mutual interaction with political, economic and social forces; and that national energy policy is not a matter of 'objective' policy imperatives, such as Russian import dependence, but a function of complex domestic dynamics pertaining to institutional procedures and processes, and winners and losers. ER -