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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111209
	Epistemological dominance and ignorance of the comparative advantages of China's shale gas: Evidence from international scientific journals
	Zhou Z.; Qin Q.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	138
英文摘要	This paper reports on a critical discourse analysis on a collection of international scientific journal articles, which are a critical edge of social epistemology. At the textual surface, the analysis finds that China's shale gas (SG) is compared most frequently with coal and energy imports but rarely with conventional natural gas (CNG) and coalbed methane (CBM), representing a prominent structure of epistemological dominance and ignorance. Situated in this structure there are four prevailing, albeit defective, reasoning forms. The prevalence of those forms suggests that there is a “knowledge deficit” on the comparative advantage of China's SG. This deficit concretely refers to that, the attention paid to the comparative advantage of China's SG toward CNG and CBM, the number of lifecycle-comparisons between energies, and the knowledge about the US shale gas boom, are significantly insufficient. China's energy mix, air quality and energy dependence, the conspicuousness of energy burning, and the nature of human thinking are interwoven factors of this deficit. The epistemological structure and thus the “knowledge deficit” are unfavorable for optimizing China's SG strategy and may delay natural gas' penetration into China's energy mix. This paper, especially its mental model representation, is awareness/introspection provoking to researchers and policy makers. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Biases Comparative advantage Conventional natural gas Epistemology Shale gas
英文关键词	Air quality; Coal deposits; Gases; Life cycle; Methane; Shale gas; Biases; Comparative advantage; Critical discourse analysis; Energy dependence; Energy imports; Epistemology; Prominent structures; Scientific journals; Compressed natural gas; comparative advantage; import; knowledge economy; literature review; natural gas; philosophy; shale gas
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204968
作者单位	Department of Management Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China; Institute of Urban Governance, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China; Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou Z.,Qin Q.. Epistemological dominance and ignorance of the comparative advantages of China's shale gas: Evidence from international scientific journals[J],2020,138.
APA	Zhou Z.,&Qin Q..(2020).Epistemological dominance and ignorance of the comparative advantages of China's shale gas: Evidence from international scientific journals.Energy Policy,138.
MLA	Zhou Z.,et al."Epistemological dominance and ignorance of the comparative advantages of China's shale gas: Evidence from international scientific journals".Energy Policy 138(2020).