ISBN:
9783658006815
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1283935554
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9781283935555
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXV, 382 p. 17 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Steuwer, Dagmar Sibyl, 1980 - Energy efficiency governance
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Europäische Union
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Frankreich
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Großbritannien
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Italien
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Umweltzertifikat
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Energieeffizienz
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Energieeinsparung
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Energiewirtschaft
Abstract:
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. Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer 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. Der Inhalt· 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· Methodological Approach: Process and Perception Tracing· Research on White Certificate Instruments· Comparison of White Certificate Instruments in France, Italy and Great Britain Die Zielgruppen· Political scientists with a special interest in energy policy analysis· Policy-makers and stakeholders in the field of end-use energy efficiency Die AutorIn Dagmar Sibyl Steuwer is Research Associate at the German Advisory Council on the Environment
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgement; Overview of contents; Detailed table of contents; Figures; Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation; 1.2 Inductive-deductive research process; 1.3 White Certificate Instruments; 1.3.1 How do WCIs work?; 1.3.2 Two sources of WCIs; 1.3.3 Measurement of savings; 1.3.4 Design Choices: Determining the WCI's mode of action; 1.3.5 Additionality; 1.3.6 WCIs in practice - deriving the research question; 2 Theoretical framework; 2.1 Studying WCIs: A policy analysis perspective
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2.2 Ideas in context - expanding Historical Institutionalism to Constructivist Institutionalism2.2.1 Strategic action and goals; 2.2.2 Fostering change: Framing the problem and creating a policy image; 2.2.3 Policy entrepreneurs as agents of strategic action; 2.2.4 Unintended outcomes and prevailing tensions; 2.3 Policy instruments and change: tools, indicators, or agents?; 2.3.1 Explaining policy instrument choice and change; 2.3.2 Implications of a historical-constructivist institutionalism perspective for models explaining policy instrument choice
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2.4 Understanding market-based policy instruments2.4.1 MBIs as 'technical tools': a variety of categorizations; 2.4.2 Strategies and misconceptions: Ideas about market and market-based policy instruments; 2.4.3 WCI - a hybrid in disguise; 2.5 Energy efficiency - The complexity challenge; 2.5.1 Multiple goals; 2.5.2 Multiple solutions; 2.5.3 Multiple actors; 3 Methodological Operationalization; 3.1 Introduction: Two levels of analysis; 3.2 Process tracing; 3.2.1 Archival research; 3.2.2 Semi-structured expert interviews; 3.3 Perception tracing; 3.3.1 Qualitative content analysis
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3.3.2 Participatory observation3.4 Putting the pieces together: multidimensional comparison; 4 Research on WCIs; 4.1 Introduction: Analysing the WCI expert community; 4.2 Identifying and selecting sources for analysis; 4.3 Delineating and characterizing the expert community; 4.4 2004-2007: European and international research projects; 4.4.1 Research Consortia; 4.4.2 Objectives and research focus; 4.4.3 Results and design recommendations; 4.4.4 The three research projects in a nutshell; 4.5 Major Publications; 4.5.1 Literature presenting the 'big picture'; 4.5.2 Literature on WCIs and trading
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4.5.3 Comparing WCIs with other policy instruments4.6 Knowledge development: Preliminary summary of written material; 4.7 Conferences; 4.7.1 IEA workshop on WCIs in Milan; 4.7.2 JRC Workshop on 'White ertificates, utility and supplier obligation' in Brussels; 4.7.3 ECEEE summer study 2009; 4.7.4 Exchanging knowledge at conferences: Summary; 4.8 Concluding analysis; 4.8.1 Focal issues over time; 4.8.2 Preliminary conclusions; 5 France; 5.1 The French energy structure; 5.1.1 Energy savings in the 2006 investment plans; 5.1.2 Energy savings in the 2009 investment plans
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5.1.3 Slowly liberalizing energy markets
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-658-00681-5
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