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Energy disadvantage in Australia: policy obstacles and opportunities
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 11:56 authored by Catherine CrowleyCatherine Crowley, Oshan JayawardenaOshan JayawardenaThis paper links energy and climate change with disadvantage in Australia and explores the dual disadvantage of steeply rising electricity prices and increasing climate change impacts. It reviews the potential of energy policy and climate policy to alleviate disadvantage, over the short and longer term, and suggests that renewable energy in particular has a role to play. However, the prospect of renewable energy policy advances in Australia is constrained, it is found, by the politicised nature of climate policy more broadly, the influence of the fossil fuel lobby, and the predisposition of current governmental policy. Drawing upon the policy streams and advocacy coalition theories of policy change, the paper assesses the political and ideological bases of this constraint, and the prospects for improved policy that could alleviate energy disadvantage. It finds that, whilst renewable energy does have an important role to play in achieving energy affordability, it needs to be supported politically, and complemented, in practical terms, by a range of policies and measures at all levels of government.
History
Publication title
Energy ProcediaVolume
121Pagination
284-291ISSN
1876-6102Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Elsevier BVPlace of publication
NetherlandsEvent title
IREE 2017 ConferenceEvent Venue
Wollongong, AustraliaDate of Event (Start Date)
2017-02-16Date of Event (End Date)
2017-02-17Rights statement
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