Comparative Renewables Policy
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 interrelationships 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 as practitioners with an interest in renewable energy and climate transitions.
Elin Lerum Boasson is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo. She is also Senior Researcher at CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway.
Merethe Dotterud Leiren is Senior Researcher and Political Scientist at CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway.
Jrgen Wettestad is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway.
Routledge Studies on the Governance of Sustainability in Europe
Series editors: Thomas Hoerber
ESSCA School of Management, France
Jenny Fairbrass
University of East Anglia, UK
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the EU is faced with major economic, environmental and societal challenges. Climate change is at the forefront of these challenges having a wide-ranging impact on the economy and society. This series will examine tensions and ambiguities in European sustainable development from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary background, covering the impact of sustainable development policies on European integration, and sustainability issues in energy, environmental, transport, development and agricultural policies.
Comparative Renewables Policy
Political, Organizational and European Fields
Edited by Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jrgen Wettestad
Comparative Renewables Policy
Political, Organizational and European Fields
Edited by
Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jrgen Wettestad
First published 2021
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2021 selection and editorial matter, Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jrgen Wettestad; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Jrgen Wettestad to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book has been requested
ISBN: 978-0-367-18766-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-19814-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Apex CoVantage, LLC
Contents
PART I
Setting the stage
ELIN LERUM BOASSON, MERETHE DOTTERUD LEIREN AND JRGEN WETTESTAD
ELIN LERUM BOASSON AND MERETHE DOTTERUD LEIREN
ELIN LERUM BOASSON
ELIN LERUM BOASSON
PART II
Case studies
MERETHE DOTTERUD LEIREN AND INKEN REIMER
TIM RAYNER, MERETHE DOTTERUD LEIREN AND TOR HKON JACKSON INDERBERG
KACPER SZULECKI
ELIN LERUM BOASSON, CATHERINE BANET AND JRGEN WETTESTAD
ELIN LERUM BOASSON, HUGO FABER AND KARIN BCKSTRAND
ELIN LERUM BOASSON
PART III
Assessments and conclusions
ELIN LERUM BOASSON, MERETHE DOTTERUD LEIREN AND JRGEN WETTESTAD
ELIN LERUM BOASSON
Guide
Editors
Elin Lerum Boasson, Associate Professor, is Deputy Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo. Further, she is Senior Researcher at CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo, and a lead author in the Sixth Assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III: Mitigation. Boasson has published extensively on the EU and domestic climate and energy policy, exploring the role of policy entrepreneurship, cultural-institutional features, business influence, political steering and policy diffusion. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, die Freie Universitt Berlin and SCANCOR-Weatherhead, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Merethe Dotterud Leiren is Research Director and Political Scientist at CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo. She has published on political opportunity structures, differential growth, European integration and dilemmas in multi-level governance systems, focusing on energy, climate and transport policies. She has been Research Fellow at the University of Agder, Norway; Guest Researcher at the Humboldt University Berlin; and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo. Further, she has been a member of the Norwegian Commission for Air Transport, appointed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and a member of the evaluation committee of the Swedish Energy Agencys Research Programme Human, Energy Systems and Society.
Jrgen Wettestad is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, and a lead author in the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report, Working Group III: Mitigation. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on international, EU and national environmental policy, with particular attention to emissions trading. Wettestad has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; the Institute for International Studies, Berkeley, CA; and SCANCOR-Weatherhead, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He has also led and participated in several EU-funded and international projects, and has long experience as Programme Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. Wettestad is Editorial Board Member of the journals Climate Policy and Politics and Governance
