Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Institutional Complexity and Its Challenges to Effectiveness and Legitimacy

Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges is complex, and includes multiple intergovernmental and transnational institutions. This book analyses the governance interactions between such institutions, and explores their consequences for legitimacy and effectiveness. Using a novel analytical framework, the contributors examine three policy fields: renewable energy, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and carbon pricing. These fields are compared in terms of their institutional memberships, governance functions and overarching norms. Bringing together prominent researchers from political science and international relations, the book offers an essential resource for future research and provides policy recommendations for effective and legitimate governance of the climate-energy nexus. Rooted in the most recent research, it is an invaluable reference for researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders in climate change and energy politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. INDICE: 1. Introduction – governing the climate-energy nexus Fariborz Zelli, Karin Backstrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jakob Skovgaard, and Oscar Widerberg; Part I. Maping the Climate-Energy Nexus: 2. Analytical framework – assessing coherence, management, legitimacy, and effectiveness Fariborz Zelli, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Karin Backstrand, Philipp Pattberg, Lisa Sanderink, Jakob Skovgaard, Harro van Asselt, and Oscar Widerberg; 3. Mapping the institutional complex of the climate-energy nexus Lisa Sanderink, Philipp Pattberg, Oscar Widerberg; Part II. Coherence and Management in the Climate-Energy Nexus: 4. Renewable energy – a loosely coupled system or a well-connected web of institutions? Lisa Sanderink; 5. Fossil fuel subsidy reform – interactions between international cooperative institutions Cleo Verkuijl and Harro van Asselt; 6. Carbon pricing – overlaps and formal collaboration Jakob Skovgaard and Jana Canavan; Part III. Legitimacy and Effectiveness in the Climate-Energy Nexus: 7. Disentangling legitimacy – comparing stakeholder assessments of five key climate and energy governance institutions Naghmeh Nasiritousi and Soetkin Verhaegen; 8. The performance of the climate-energy nexus – assessing the effectiveness of the institutional complexes on renewable energy, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and carbon pricing Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Lisa Sanderink, Jakob Skovgaard, Harro van Asselt, Cleo Verkuijl, and Oscar Widerberg; 9. Conclusions – coherence, management, legitimacy, and effectiveness in the climate-energy nexus Fariborz Zelli, Karin Backstrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jakob Skovgaard, and Oscar Widerberg.

• ISBN: 978-1-108-48481-7
• Editorial: Cambridge University Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés