Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe

by Michèle Knodt (Editor), Jörg Kemmerzell (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive account of energy governance in Europe, examining both energy governance at the European level and the development of energy policy in 30 European countries. Authored by leading scholars, the first part of the book offers a broad overview of the topics of energy research, including theories of energy transitions, strategies and norms of energy policy, governance instruments in the field, and challenges of energy governance. In the second part, it examines the internal and external dimensions of energy governance in the European Union. The third part presents in-depth country studies, which investigate national trajectories of energy policy, including an analysis of the policy instruments and coordination mechanisms for energy transitions. It closes with a comparative analysis of national energy governance. This book is a definitive resource for scholars in energy and climate research as well as decision makers in national governments and EU institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030432492
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	1343
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michèle Knodt is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘EU in Global Dialogue’ (CEDI), Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘EU@School’, Chair of the COST Network ENTER (EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities), Co-leader of the Loewe-Excellence Centre ‘emergenCITY’, Co-leader of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Critical Infrastructures’, PI in the Kopernikus Project ‘Ariadne – Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation’, and leader of smaller cooperative and interdisciplinary projects. She has published widely on the EU, is especially interested in energy and climate governance and has received research grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation and the European Commission.

Jörg Kemmerzell received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2007. His research interests include energy and climate policy in multilevel systems, comparative politics and methods, and applied theory of democracy. He has published over 50 journal articles, books, and book chapters mostly on energy and climate policy and related topics. After finishing his Ph.D., Jörg Kemmerzell worked as a researcher and lecturer in Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Hildesheim (Germany). Since 2012, he was a senior researcher in four research projects of the German Research Council (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), focusing on climate policy of cities and the assessment of the German energy transition. He worked also as a consultant for research communication. Since 2021, he is a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadtand a research associate in the Kopernikus project ’Ariadne – Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation’.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Energy Governance in Europe.- 2. Energy Governance Research: Theories, Issues, and Problems.- Energy research in the social sciences: history and developments .- The Politics of Green Transformations.- Instruments of renewable energy promotion .- Energy Justice.- Energy poverty .- Transition of energy systems: patterns of stability and change.- Steering and Monitoring in Energy Policy.- Extending energy policy: the challenge of sector integration .- Participation in energy transitions.- 3. Global Energy Governance.- Global Energy Challenge. Environment, Development and Security.- Politics and Institutions of Global energy governance.- Fragmentation in international energy institution.- Global Energy Dilemmas.- 4. European Governance.- European Union Energy Governance.- Energy policies in the EU - a fiscal federalism perspective.- An emerging EU strategic energy narrative? Twitter communication during the EU’s sustainable energy week.- EU Energy Cooperation with the „BICS“ Countries.- EU-Russian Energy cooperation.- EU-US Energy cooperation.- EU-Canada Energy cooperation .- Energy matters in the EU Eastern Partnership.- Energy matters in the EU Southern Partnership.- Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South East Europe.- Making sense of the EU’s external energy governance in the Caspian Sea: Energy security and pipeline politics.- Third countries adoption of European Energy Regulations.- The Politics of Nuclear Energy in the European Union.- The Politics of fossil fuels in the European Union.- The Politics of Renewable Energy in the European Union.- European Energy Charter Treaty.- European Transmission Network Regulation.- Regional cooperation within the EU.- The EU and the local level in Energy Policy.- Energy Policy through transnational Cooperation: the Covenant of Mayors.- 5. Country Studies.- Introduction: National Energy Governance. Building Blocks of a Framework for Analysis.- Energy Governance in Albania.- Energy Governance in Armenia.- Energy Governance in Austria.- Energy Governance in Azerbaijan.- Energy Governance in Belgium.- Energy Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the small states on the Western Balkans.- Energy Governance in Croatia.- Energy Governance in the Czech Republic.- Energy Governance in Denmark.- Energy Governance in Estonia.- Energy Governance in Finland.- Energy Governance in France.- Energy Governance in Georgia.- Energy Governance in Germany.- Energy Governance in Greece.- Energy Governance in Hungary.- Energy Governance in Ireland.- Energy Governance in Iceland.- Energy Governance in Italy.- Energy Governance in Latvia.- Energy Governance in Lithuania.- Energy Governance in Luxembourg.- Energy Governance in Malta.- Energy Governance in Moldavia.- Energy Governance in Netherlands.- Energy Governance in Norway.- Energy Governance in Poland.- Energy Governance in Portugal.- EnergyGovernance in Romania.- Energy Governance in Russia.- Energy Governance in Serbia.- Energy Governance in Slovakia.- Energy Governance in Slovenia.- Energy Governance in Spain.- Energy Governance in Sweden.- Energy Governance in Switzerland.- Energy Governance in Turkey.- Energy Governance in the.- Energy Governance in the United Kingdom.- 6. Comparison and conclusion.