The Energy Security-Climate Nexus

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Orthodoxies, Challenges and Change

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 1-12

3. Perspectives on Energy, Governance and Profound Change

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 13-38

4. Conceptualising Change and the PEPP

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 39-63

5. Historical Context, Ideas and Political Practice

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 64-91

6. The PEPP 2000–2003: Resistance to Change

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 92-119

7. The Energy Security Crisis 2004–2007: Russia and the Politicisation of Energy

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 120-144

8. Unravelling the Ties that Bind: 2008–2010

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 145-170

9. The Energy Security-Climate Nexus: UK and Beyond

   • Caroline Kuzemko

   Pages 171-196

10. Conclusions and Possible Futures

    • Caroline Kuzemko

    Pages 197-205

11. Back Matter

    Pages 206-243

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In the advent of important crises of both climate change and energy supply (in)security, questions are being asked about changes in energy governance. Caroline Kuzemko explains how and why change takes place and discusses the convoluted UK energy governance system that has emerged between 2000 and the present day. She applies a complex theoretical approach based on new institutional concepts of policy paradigm change, but which also utilises concepts of (de)politicisation and securitization. UK energy governance, like energy policy elsewhere, is moving from one heavily influenced by neoliberal economic ideas to one where state intervention is more commonplace. Moreover, the new governance system is informed not by one but by multiple perspectives on energy and governance geopolitical, climate change and pro-market.

• energy
• energy policy
• Governance
• Institution
• Policy
• British Politics
• Environmental Geography

• Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter, UK

  Caroline Kuzemko

Caroline Kuzemko is a Research Fellow in the Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter, UK. Her recent publications include a co-edited volume The Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (2012).

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