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From path dependence to policy mixes for Nordic electric mobility: Lessons for accelerating future transport transitions

Kirsi Kotilainen, Pami Aalto, Jussi Valta, Antti Rautiainen, więcej

Policy Sciences > 2019 > 52 > 4 > 573-600

We examine the problem of how to accelerate policies related to electric vehicles (EVs) in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. These four Nordic countries represent an interesting collection of cases by virtue of having common decarbonization targets extending to the transport sector, interlinked electric energy systems and a joint electricity market largely based on low-carbon...

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Decarbonization and its discontents: a critical energy justice perspective on four low-carbon transitions

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Mari Martiskainen, Andrew Hook, Lucy Baker

Climatic Change > 2019 > 155 > 4 > 581-619

Low-carbon transitions are often assumed as positive phenomena, because they supposedly reduce carbon emissions, yet without vigilance, there is evidence that they can in fact create new injustices and vulnerabilities, while also failing to address pre-existing structural drivers of injustice in energy markets and the wider socio-economy. With this in mind, we examine four European low-carbon transitions...

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Disequilibrium in Development Finance: The Contested Politics of Institutional Accountability and Transparency at the World Bank Inspection Panel

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Andria Naudé Fourie, May Tan‐Mullins

Development and Change > 50 > 4 > 867 - 895

This article examines the dynamic nature with which independent accountability mechanisms operate. Focusing on the World Bank, the authors argue that its Inspection Panel evolves according to internal and external pressures. In seeking to achieve equilibrium, and protect its authority and independence, the Panel has gone through several distinct phases: negotiation, emergence, protracted resistance,...

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Bloated bodies and broken bricks: Power, ecology, and inequality in the political economy of natural disaster recovery

Benjamin K. Sovacool, May Tan-Mullins, Wokje Abrahamse

World Development > 2018 > 110 > C > 243-255

Disaster recovery efforts form an essential component of coping with unforeseen events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and typhoons, some of which will only become more frequent or severe in the face of accelerated climate change. Most of the time, disaster recovery efforts produce net benefits to society. However, depending on their design and governance, some projects can germinate adverse...

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Policy mechanisms to accelerate electric vehicle adoption: A qualitative review from the Nordic region

Johannes Kester, Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews > 2018 > 94 > C > 719-731

Electric vehicles are an important instrument to decarbonize transportation, offering a range of co-benefits such as reductions in local pollution, noise emissions, and oil dependency. Unfortunately, price, range, infrastructure and technological uncertainty are only some of the barriers to a faster adoption of these vehicles. To overcome these barriers, there is a broad call for public support and...

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Insights into wind sites: Critically assessing the innovation, cost, and performance dynamics of global wind energy development

Peter Enevoldsen, Scott Victor Valentine, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy Policy > 2018 > 120 > C > 1-7

Reliable empirical data on the siting characteristics and operational performance of wind farms are scarce. Knowing more about the technical characteristics of wind farms provides insight into the business mindset of wind farm developers, which can be useful for policymakers or researchers who are intent on designing policy in a way to optimize wind farm investment by creating better alignment between...

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Carbon pathways in the global gas market: An attributional lifecycle assessment of the climate impacts of liquefied natural gas exports from the United States to Asia

Alexander Q. Gilbert, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy Policy > 2018 > 120 > C > 635-643

While the United States is poised to become a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), relatively little attention has been paid to greenhouse gas emission impacts from exporting US natural gas to Asia, a key likely destination. Using bounding scenarios of attributional lifecycle analysis, this study finds that the climate impacts of United States exports to China, Japan, India, or South Korea...

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Mobility, food and housing: responsibility, individual consumption and demand-side policies in European deep decarbonisation pathways

Karen R. Moberg, Carlo Aall, Florian Dorner, Elsa Reimerson, więcej

Energy Efficiency > 2019 > 12 > 2 > 497-519

The Brundtland Commission report ‘Our Common Future’ highlighted that residents in high-income countries lead lifestyles incompatible with planetary boundaries. Three decades later, consumption-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to increase. To achieve ‘well below 2°C’ and 1.5 °C goals, consumption-related emissions must be substantially reduced in the coming decades. This paper...

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Optimizing innovation, carbon and health in transport: Assessing socially optimal electric mobility and vehicle-to-grid pathways in Denmark

Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy > 2018 > 153 > C > 628-637

This paper examines the social costs and benefits of potential configurations of electric vehicle deployment, including and excluding vehicle-to-grid. To fully explore the benefits and costs of different electric vehicle pathways, four different scenarios are devised with both today's and 2030 electricity grid in Denmark. These scenarios combine different levels of electric vehicle implementation...

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Bamboo Beating Bandits: Conflict, Inequality, and Vulnerability in the Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Benjamin K. Sovacool

World Development > 2018 > 102 > C > 183-194

Bangladesh contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Based on semi-structured research interviews as a conduit to a literature review, this paper shows how the processes of enclosure, exclusion, encroachment, and entrenchment impede the vitality of its climate change adaptation efforts. Enclosure refers to when adaptation...

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Corrigendum to “Vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom's smart meter transition” [Energy Policy 109 (2017) 767–781]

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Paula Kivimaa, Sabine Hielscher, Kirsten Jenkins

Energy Policy > 2018 > 113 > C > 52

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Major hydropower states, sustainable development, and energy security: Insights from a preliminary cross-comparative assessment

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Götz Walter

Energy > 2018 > 142 > C > 1074-1082

Hydropower remains, by a wide margin, the largest source of renewable electricity around the world, and hydropower dams supply a greater source of commercial energy than the world's fleet of nuclear power plants. Yet far less attention has been paid to the political, security, and governance elements underlying the continued use and growth of hydropower. Theorists from many disciplines—political geography,...

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US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports: Boom or bust for the global climate?

Alexander Q. Gilbert, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy > 2017 > 141 > C > 1671-1680

Due to surging natural gas production, the United States is now a growing exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to overseas destinations. However, the potential greenhouse gas implications from increased US natural gas remain unclear. Through a hybrid lifecycle energy strategy analysis, we investigate potential greenhouse gas scenarios of US LNG exports to Asia, the largest source of global LNG...

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The presidential politics of climate discourse: Energy frames, policy, and political tactics from the 2016 Primaries in the United States

George Brown, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy Policy > 2017 > 111 > C > 127-136

This study presents the results of an investigation into the frequency in which four candidates of the 2016 United States Presidential Primary season communicated their political positions on climate change, and how they subsequently framed these stances in numerous contextual drivers alongside energy policies. A systematic content analysis of political debates, campaign speeches, and press statements...

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Frame envy in energy policy ideology: A social constructivist framework for wicked energy problems

Scott Victor Valentine, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown

Energy Policy > 2017 > 109 > C > 623-630

This article deals with the nexus between energy policymaking and ideology. The article builds and expands upon a theoretical social constructivist analytical strategy, or framework, put forth for the purposes of conducting energy policy analysis. It then addresses criticism that this strategy constitutes “postmodern mush” that has no place in energy analysis before concluding with a review of why...

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Stretching, embeddedness, and scripts in a sociotechnical transition: Explaining the failure of electric mobility at Better Place (2007–2013)

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Lance Noel, Renato J. Orsato

Technological Forecasting and Social Change > 2017 > 123 > C > 24-34

Based on field research, interviews, and participant observation, this study explores the failure of Better Place—a now bankrupt company—to successfully demonstrate and deploy battery swapping stations and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. To do so, it draws from concepts in innovation studies, sociotechnical transitions, management science, organizational studies, and sociology. The study...

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Imagined people, behaviour and future mobility: Insights from visions of electric vehicles and car clubs in the United Kingdom

Noam Bergman, Tim Schwanen, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Transport Policy > 2017 > 59 > C > 165-173

This study focuses on imagined futures of personal mobility in the United Kingdom in the context of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Focusing on two innovations, electric vehicles and car clubs, the study investigates how people, behaviour and mobility are imagined in a range of visioning documents about the future up to 2050, a timeline that is critically important for...

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Vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom's smart meter transition

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Paula Kivimaa, Sabine Hielscher, Kirsten Jenkins

Energy Policy > 2017 > 109 > C > 767-781

The Smart Meter Implementation Program (SMIP) lays the legal framework in the United Kingdom so that a smart gas and electricity meter, along with an in-home display, can be installed in every household by 2020. Intended to reduce household energy consumption by 5–15%, the SMIP represents the world's largest and most expensive smart meter rollout. However, a series of obstacles and delays has restricted...

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Benchmarking natural gas and coal-fired electricity generation in the United States

Alexander Q. Gilbert, Benjamin K. Sovacool

Energy > 2017 > 134 > C > 622-628

This study answers a critical question facing the energy sector in the United States: how does natural gas compare to coal as a climate change mitigation technique? Although natural gas burns cleaner than coal, methane leakage potentially undermines the climate benefits of fuel switching. This study investigates the impact of methane leakage using a novel plant-level lifecycle emissions inventory...

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The Dragon awakens: Innovation, competition, and transition in the energy strategy of the People’s Republic of China, 1949–2017

Long Zhang, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Jingzheng Ren, Adrian Ely

Energy Policy > 2017 > 108 > C > 634-644

Based on a mix of original archival research and an extensive literature review, this article assesses the history of the People’s Republic of China’s national energy policies since 1949. We divide this history into six phases: Emergence (1949–1957), Socialist construction (1958–1965), Turbulence (1966–1978), Reform (1979–2000), Contestation (2001–2014), and Transition (2015-present). Over the whole...

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