Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Skovgaard, Jakob

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Produktbeschreibung

Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform, and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of political science, international relations, law, public policy, and environmental studies. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108266079
• Artikelnr.: 54108864

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their
reform: an introduction Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt; Part II. The
Scope of the Challenge: 2. Defining and measuring fossil fuel subsidies
Doug Koplow; 3. Reforming fossil fuel subsidies: the art of the possible
Shelagh Whitley and Laurie van der Burg; 4. The political economy of
incumbency: fossil fuel subsidies in global and historical context Peter
Newell and Phil Johnstone; Part III. The International Politics of Fossil
Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: 5. Fossil fuel subsidy reform: an
international norm perspective Thijs Van de Graaf and Mathieu Blondeel; 6.
International push, domestic reform? The influence of international
economic institutions on fossil fuel subsidy reform Jakob Svovgaard; 7.
Fossil fuel subsidies and the global trade regime Ronald Steenblik, Jehan
Sauvage and Christina Timiliotis; 8. Fossil fuel subsidies and the global
climate regime Harro van Asselt, Laura Merrill and Kati Kulovesi; 9.
Anatomy of an international norm entrepreneur: the friends of fossil fuel
subsidy reform Vernon Rive; 10. The global subsidies initiative: catalytic
actors and the politics of fossil fuel subsidy reform Nathan Lemphers,
Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann; Part IV. The Domestic Politics of
Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: 11. Fossil fuel subsidy reform in
Indonesia: the struggle for successful reform Kathryn Chelminski; 12.
Lessons from the world's largest subsidy benefit transfer scheme: the case
of liquefied petroleum gas subsidy reform in India Abhishek Jain, Shalu
Agrawal and Karthik Ganesan; 13. Sustaining carbon lock-in: fossil fuel
subsidies in South Africa Jesse Burton, Tawney Lott and Britta Rennkamp;
14. The politics of subsidies to coal extraction in Colombia Claudia
Strambo, Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Angélica Puertas Velasco and Aaron
Atteridge; 15. Reforming Egypt's fossil fuel subsidies in the context of a
changing social contract Tom S. H. Moerenhout; 16. Actors, frames and
contexts in fossil fuel subsidy reform: the case of Trinidad and Tobago
Michelle Scobie; Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions: 17. Conclusions and
ways forward Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt; Index.