The articles in the “Panorama” section take a big-picture perspective. They take the risk of offering syntheses by favoring a longue durée approach toward the relations of co-construction between a territory (a country, region, city) and energy.
From 1960 onward, solar energy developed in a context of innovation and structured scientific policy in Senegal, Mali, and Niger. The crises of the early 1970s brought new actors to the region, as well as technological competition between thermodynamic and photovoltaic solar energy.
The rapid demographic growth Brazil has experienced since the installation of the First Republic (1889) was mediated by the large size of its territory and the abundance of natural resources.