The institutional dimension of resource efficiency in a multi-level governance system—Implications for policy mix design
| Autor: | Henning Wilts, Bettina Bahn-Walkowiak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Multi-level governance
Scope (project management) Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 020209 energy Circular economy Policy mix Resource efficiency Energy Engineering and Power Technology Public policy 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Policy analysis 01 natural sciences Fuel Technology Nuclear Energy and Engineering ddc:320 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics media_common.cataloged_instance Economic system European union Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Energy Research & Social Science. 33:163-172 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.021 |
| Popis: | The paper undertakes a closer look on the relation of institutions and policy mixes within the multi-level scope of the European Union in the policy field of resource efficiency and maps out different configurations. Based on an extensive analysis of scope, foci, instruments and especially the distribution of institutional responsibilities in 32 EU countries, the paper aims to amplify the categorisation of policy mix characteristics developed by Rogge and Reichardt by considerations on the institutional background of policy mixes. It specifically brings into question the potential impact of different institutional settings on the consistency and coherence of approaches in this evolving policy field. Resource efficiency is an eminently cross-cutting policy concept and a specific interesting unit of analysis due to the observable heterogeneity of implementation approaches. However, it is still mainly disconnected from energy issues and, at the same time, EU policy has shifted to the circular economy approach, indicating further need for streamlining with the resource efficiency approach. The paper stresses the need to include institutional and multi-level governance issues for policy design and the development of policy mixes, especially in the context of the now refocused resource efficiency agenda to the transition to a circular economy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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