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Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK
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Lovell, HC and Bulkeley, HA and Owens, SE, Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27, (1) pp. 90-109. ISSN 0263-774X (2009) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2008 Pion Ltd
DOI: doi:10.1068/c0797j
Abstract
In the UK climate change and energy have converged on the policy agenda. We discuss the implications for theories of policy change based on well-defined networks located within single, discrete, policy domains. We suggest that such approaches struggle to account for the dynamics of change in conditions of policy convergence. The issue of climate change has opened up and destabilised the UK energy policy sector, but this process has been surprisingly free of conflict, despite radical policy shifts. To date, convergence of the energy and climate change sectors has largely occurred at a discursive level, and we focus our attention on a number of different, but largely complementary, storylines about solutions to climate change. We draw on ideas about sociotechnical regime transitions, first, to explore why the storylines are not in obvious conflict, and, second, to identify small-scale niches where tensions in storylines do emerge as discourse is translated into material reality. © 2008 Pion Ltd and its Licensors.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology and social studies of science and technology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Lovell, HC (Professor Heather Lovell) |
ID Code: | 99603 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 81 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2015-03-30 |
Last Modified: | 2015-05-13 |
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