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DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.05.004 |
Renewable energy policy as an enabler of fossil fuel subsidy reform? Applying a socio-technical perspective to the cases of Africa and Tunisia | |
Schmidt, Tobias S.1; Matsuo, Tyeler1; Michaelowa, Axel2 | |
2017-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS |
ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 45 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Switzerland |
英文摘要 | Fossil fuel subsidies are a key barrier for economic development and climate change mitigation. While the plunge in international fuel prices has increased the political will to introduce fossil fuel subsidy reforms, recently introduced reforms may risk backsliding when fuel prices rebound particularly if they fail to address the underlying mechanisms that create demand for low fossil fuel prices. Extant literature has mostly focused on the consequences of fossil fuel subsidies, including their economic or environmental impact, and the social contract that make their reform difficult. In this paper, we complement the extant literature with a socio-technical perspective of fossil fuel subsidies to explore the systemic mechanisms that often keep subsidies in place and how these mechanisms can be weakened. Specifically, in case studies of the electricity sectors in South Africa and Tunisia, we trace the socio-technical foundations of their fossil fuel subsidy regimes and the potential of renewable energy policy in disrupting this regime We discuss the relevance of our results for national policymakers wishing to implement and international actors wishing to support fossil fuel subsidy reform. In particular, we highlight that the socio-technical perspective of fossil fuel subsidies offers new intervention points for subsidy reform and that policy designs and assistance should strengthen technologies and actors that are most likely to destabilize the fossil fuel subsidy regime. |
英文关键词 | Lock-in Fossil fuel regime Climate change Political economy Policy change |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000411912800009 |
WOS关键词 | DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES ; CLIMATE POLICY ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; INCREASING RETURNS ; POLITICAL-ECONOMY ; LOCK-IN ; TRANSITIONS ; ENVIRONMENT ; POWER |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37780 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.ETH, Swiss Fed Inst Technol Zurich, Energy Polit Grp, Dept Humanities Social & Polit Sci, Zurich, Switzerland; 2.Univ Zurich, Inst Polit Sci, Zurich, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Schmidt, Tobias S.,Matsuo, Tyeler,Michaelowa, Axel. Renewable energy policy as an enabler of fossil fuel subsidy reform? Applying a socio-technical perspective to the cases of Africa and Tunisia[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2017,45. |
APA | Schmidt, Tobias S.,Matsuo, Tyeler,&Michaelowa, Axel.(2017).Renewable energy policy as an enabler of fossil fuel subsidy reform? Applying a socio-technical perspective to the cases of Africa and Tunisia.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,45. |
MLA | Schmidt, Tobias S.,et al."Renewable energy policy as an enabler of fossil fuel subsidy reform? Applying a socio-technical perspective to the cases of Africa and Tunisia".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 45(2017). |
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