Sandu-Daniel Kopp investigates whether carbon reduction targets are compatible with market-driven competition in gas (and power) industries, and whether security of supply is compatible with competitive markets. He examines the policy trade-offs which need to be made between the three different elements, and whether these policy judgements should be economically or politically based. The analysis shows the need for a complex set of politically determined options to protect (competitive) markets from price risks and emergency events and demonstrates that this has thus far failed the policy...
Sandu-Daniel Kopp investigates whether carbon reduction targets are compatible with market-driven competition in gas (and power) industries, and wheth...
This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, monitoring systems, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and approaches to public involvement. Key stakeholders, their values and interests are introduced, the responsibilities and authority of different actors considered, decision-making processes are...
This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level ...
Shabnam Mirsaeedi-Farahani analyzes Iran's interests in diversifying its energy sector, specifically electricity generation and consumption, between 1990 and 2011. She examines the policy discussions in the Iranian Parliament as well as policy development and implementation with respect to the electricity sector. One of the geopolitically crucial areas for both Iran's domestic development as well as its international influence has been its energy sector. The author assesses international policy pressures and domestic interests to evaluate the interplay of interests, actors, and strategies....
Shabnam Mirsaeedi-Farahani analyzes Iran's interests in diversifying its energy sector, specifically electricity generation and consumption, betwee...
By using the example of Germany and Poland this multi-level policy dependency analysis by Marco Wedel researches constraints and dependencies of the European Integration of the promotion of renewable energy source electricity (RES-E). To gain insightful results, the author does not only take a look at the implementation effectiveness of the relevant Directive 2009/28/EC, but much more generally analyses the potentially conflicting polity implications of the entities involved, as well as their respective policy preferences and processes in light of RES-(E). Combined, these give rise to...
By using the example of Germany and Poland this multi-level policy dependency analysis by Marco Wedel researches constraints and dependencies of th...
Jorg Radtke bietet in diesem Band einen umfassenden Einblick in die gesamte Bandbreite der Organisationsstrukturen von Initiativen der "Burgerenergie" und deren Beitrag zur Energiewende. Auf der Grundlage flachendeckender quantitativer Umfragedaten sowie vertiefter Analysen ausgewahlter Fallbeispiele von Solar-, Wind- und Geothermie-Projekten dokumentiert er die Sozialstruktur und die Motivationen beteiligter Burgerinnen und Burger. Der Autor untersucht Partizipationsformen, Gemeinschaftsbildung und Vernetzung der uberwiegend ehrenamtlich gefuhrten "Burgerenergie"-Initiativen und...
Jorg Radtke bietet in diesem Band einen umfassenden Einblick in die gesamte Bandbreite der Organisationsstrukturen von Initiativen der "Burgerenergie"...
Edgar Vo zeigt auf, dass auch im autoritar gefuhrten China zivilgesellschaftliche Beratung und Wissensressourcen zur Formulierung von Klimapolitik notwendig sind. Er erforscht den Entstehungsprozess des chinesischen Klimaschutzgesetzes, der vom Staatsapparat als transparent, inklusiv und deliberativ angelegt wurde, um eine theoretisch fundierte Erklarung fur die zunehmend pluralistische Ausgestaltung der chinesischen Klimapolitik zu finden. Die Arbeit leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Widerlegung der popularen Ansicht, nur ein rational und autoritar gefuhrter Politikapparat, der auf...
Edgar Vo zeigt auf, dass auch im autoritar gefuhrten China zivilgesellschaftliche Beratung und Wissensressourcen zur Formulierung von Klimapolitik ...
Jan Beermann addresses persistent research gaps in urban climate governance and North-South cooperation. He compares the form, processes and outcomes of four local climate protection projects conducted as part of German-Indian urban cooperation and explores the conditions associated with the success and/or failure in these initiatives. The study concludes that North-South city partnerships struggle to fully realise their potential to foster global climate protection efforts, specifically in terms of post-project sustainability, multi-level governance coordination, and mutuality. On the...
Jan Beermann addresses persistent research gaps in urban climate governance and North-South cooperation. He compares the form, processes and outcom...
Wolfgang Grundinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new German politics have fundamentally changed over the last two decades with respect to five distinct mechanisms: the end of 'fossil-nuclear' corporatism, the new importance of trust in lobbying, 'green ' path dependence, the emergence of a 'Green Grand Coalition', and intra-party fights over energy politics.
Wolfgang Grundinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, ren...
By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interconnectivity in Eurasia into broader areas of trade, supported by the rapid development of rail connectivity.
By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interco...
Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situations within which dynamic negotiation processes unfold.
Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situat...
