Description
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 the Author
Jon Birger Skjaerseth, Research Professor, Per Ove Eikeland, Senior Research Fellow, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Research Professor and Torbjorg Jevnaker, Research Fellow, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway
Reviews
'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
Book Information
ISBN 9781788116817
Author Jon Birger Skjaerseth
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
