New book on Climate and Energy Governance
Fariborz Zelli
Dear colleagues,
we are excited to share our new volume on ‚Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus’ with Cambridge UP.
The book just came off the press and is open access; see here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-climateenergy-nexus/87F5A10BD95C94B1245DF2F9CA5D00B5
See also the below for blurb and further info.
We would be grateful if you could spread the word and recommend this new volume as a reference for researchers, students policymakers and other stakeholders in climate change and energy politics.
Best wishes,
Fariborz Zelli, Karin Bäckstrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jakob Skovgaard and Oscar Widerberg
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.
We use a novel analytical framework to examine three specific policy fields within the climate-energy nexus: renewable energy, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and carbon pricing. These fields are compared in terms of their institutional memberships, governance functions and overarching norms.
Based on these analyses we develop policy recommendations for more legitimate and effective approaches at the intersection of climate and energy governance.
Apart from the editors (Fariborz Zelli, Karin Bäckstrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Jakob Skovgaard, Oscar Widerberg), contributors include Jana Canavan, Philipp Pattberg, Lisa Sanderink, Harro van Asselt, Soetkin Verhagen and Cleo Verkuijl.
The volume summarises results of the international research project ‘ClimEnGo’ (‘Challenges and opportunities in a fragmented global Climate and Energy Governance’). The project was headed by Karin Bäckstrand and brought together colleagues from Stockholm University, Lund University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Stockholm Environment Institute and the University of Eastern Finland. We are grateful to the Swedish Energy Agency for their generous support of our research project.
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Dr. Fariborz Zelli, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Lund University
Box 52
22100 Lund
Sweden
Phone: +46-46-222-4764
http://www.svet.lu.se/fariborz-zelli