Jakob Skovgaard
Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Principal investigator BECC
Introduction: The Governance of the Climate-Energy Nexus
Author
Editor
- Fariborz Zelli
- Karin Bäckstrand
- Naghmeh Nasiritousi
- Jakob Skovgaard
- Oscar Widerberg
Summary, in English
The introduction first explains the rationale and theoretical and empirical contributions of the edited volume. The book seeks to address a considerable gap of knowledge of the nature of the relationship between institutions governing the climate-energy nexus in a multilevel context. In particular, there is scant research on consequences on the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance arrangements and the climate-energy nexus as a whole. For an in-depth analysis of institutional complexity in the nexus, we selected three policy fields as case studies: renewable energy, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and carbon pricing. We made this choice since the three cases represent urgent and major components of the climate-energy nexus, since they vary considerably in the number and mix of institutions that govern them at the international level, and since they differ in their positioning within the climate-energy nexus – with carbon pricing primarily a climate change issue, renewable energy lying at the core of energy governance, and fossil fuel subsidy reform falling in between. The chapter concludes with an outline of the ccontributions to the book, structured along the volume’s three parts on mapping (I) coherence and management (II), and legitimacy and effectiveness (III).
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publishing year
2020-05
Language
English
Pages
1-18
Publication/Series
Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus : Challenges to Coherence, Legitimacy and Effectiveness
Links
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic
- Political Science
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781108676397