Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies: Decision-making, Implementation and Reform (New Horizons in Environmental Politics series) - Softcover

Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Eikeland, Per Ove; Gulbrandsen, Lars H.; Jevnaker, Torbjørg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178811681X ISBN 13: 9781788116817

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Based on an innovative theoretical framework combining theories of EU policy making, negotiation and implementation, this comprehensive book examines EU climate and energy policies from the early 1990s until the adoption of new policies for 2030.

The authors investigate how the linking of climate and energy concerns in policy packages has facilitated agreement among EU leaders with very different policy ambitions. Employing in-depth studies from a diverse range of energy-economic countries, the book also explores the impact of the implementation of policies on the climate and energy policy framework and the Energy Union initiative.

Social scientists and researchers in EU climate and energy policies will find the new empirical data and theoretical approach useful to their work. Students of the social sciences and politics will also benefit from the accessible overview of EU climate and energy policy development. This book will also be of interest to private and public decision-makers looking for explanations for the causes and consequences of EU climate and energy policy development.

About this title

About the Author

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Research Professor, Per Ove Eikeland, Senior Research Fellow, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Research Professor and Torbjørg Jevnaker, Research Fellow, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway

Review

'This book not only provides an in-depth analysis of the recent development of EU climate and energy policy from the climate and energy package for 2020 to the climate and energy policy framework for 2030, it is also noteworthy for its skilful and innovative combination of EU and member state level analysis across a full policy cycle covering policy initiation, decision-making, implementation and policy reform. Recommended reading!'
--Sebastian Oberthuer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

'In Europe, climate and energy policies have become inextricably intertwined in the minds of politicians, businesses and civil society organisations. This ambitious book offers a 360 degree analysis of the interlinking strategies designed and employed by policy makers at EU level and in four critically important member states. In doing so it offers a richly textured answer to a puzzle that has always perplexed analysts: how and why do states manage to adopt policies that are significantly at odds with the preferences of the least ambitious?'
--Andrew Jordan, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK

'This book is one that all scholars, students and citizens with any interest in EU environmental and energy politics will benefit from reading and re-reading.'
--Local Environment

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178811681X
• ISBN 13: 9781788116817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288