Comparative Renewables Policy: Political, Organizational and European Fields (Routledge Studies on the Governance of Sustainability in Europe)

By: Elin Lerum Boasson and Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jørgen Wettestad

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Synopsis: Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies on the political dynamics of the ongoing energy transition in six European countries. While France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom opted for ‘technology-specific’ renewables support mixes, Norway and Sweden embarked on ‘technology-neutral’ support mixes. Differences between the two groups result from variations in domestic political and organizational fields, but developments over time in the European environment also spurred variation. These findings challenge more simplistic and static accounts of Europeanization. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of energy transitions, comparative climate politics, policy theory, Europeanization, European integration and comparative European politics more broadly, as well practitioners with an interest in renewable energy and climate transition. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429198144, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 260 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429582448
Related ISBNs:: 9780429584343, 9780429198144, 9780367614874, 9780429580222, 9780367187668
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/17/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jørgen Wettestad
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Elin Lerum Boasson
Edited by:: Merethe Dotterud Leiren
Edited by:: Jørgen Wettestad