Christian Downie

Business Battles in the US Energy Sector

Lessons for a Clean Energy Transition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how and why business actors are shaping energy policy in the US. In doing so, this work provides the first detailed analysis of business actors in the US energy sector and presents new theoretical insights about the strategies business actors use to exert influence over the policy process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138392717
• ISBN-10: 1138392715
• Artikelnr.: 55278527

Autorenporträt

Christian Downie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at The Australian National University, and author of The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations: Strategies and Variables in Prolonged International Negotiations (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Understanding Business Preferences, Strategies and Influence
Chapter 3 - Exporting to the World: Policy contests in the oil and gas
industries
Chapter 4 - The War on Coal: Policy contests in the coal and utility
industries
Chapter 5 - The Rise of Renewable Power: Policy contests in the wind and
solar industries
Chapter 6 - Re-thinking Business Behaviour in the US Energy Sector
Chapter 7 - What Should Policymakers Do?
Bibliography
Index