System boundaries as epistemological and ethnographic problems: assessing energy technology and socio-environmental impact

This article examines an epistemological dilemma at the center of social and environmental impact assessment: where and when the "system boundaries" that define the extent of an energy technology with socio-environmental impact should be drawn. We demonstrate how system boundaries give ris...

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Main Authors: Alf Hornborg, Gustav Cederlof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Arizona Libraries 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Political Ecology
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Online Access:http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2303/