Energy Efficiency Governance

The Case of White Certificate Instruments for Energy Efficiency in Europe
2013
ISBN: 978-3-658-00680-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 5245 g

Reihe: Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection

Energy efficiency contributes to the main objectives of energy policy in the European Union: energy security, cost effectiveness and environmental benefits. However, the efficiency potential remains widely untapped. Will White Certificate Instruments, a new framework instrument to foster end-use energy efficiency, help to close the energy efficiency gap? The analysis compares the political process of choosing and designing White Certificate Instruments in Italy, France and Great Britain. The book shows that the type of policy instrument as well as its image has an influence not only on agenda-setting but also on the policy instrument’s effectiveness due to interactions with existing energy efficiency discourses, regulatory traditions and the prevailing policy style.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steuwer, Dagmar Sibyl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

White Certificate Instruments as hybrid instruments: design choices and additionality.- Constructivist Institutionalism: strategic action and unintended outcomes.- Policy instruments: tools, indicators or agents.- Energy efficiency: the complexity challenge.- Process and perception tracing.

Über Autor(innen)

Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer is Research Associate at the German Advisory Council on the Environment.