European Energy Policy. An Environmental Approach

This book explores the new European energy policy, highlighting the significance of environmental policy concerns, instruments, and objectives vis-à-vis competing security and market dimensions in order to achieve an all-embracing EU energy policy perspective for the future.

While the past years have witnessed unprecedented development of EU energy policy, the understanding of this process has lagged behind. Alongside the scarce literature on this emergent policy, there is also a gap regarding the attention paid to its different components. The study stems from the perception of a mismatch between the valuable debate that certain dimensions of energy policy – namely, energy security and the market and competition framework – have triggered and the neglect of its environmental and climate change dimensions.

European Energy Policy will prove to be insightful for academics and postgraduate students interested in European integration, political science, international relations, public policy and environmental science. Energy stakeholders and governmental policymakers will also find plenty of invaluable information in this enriching resource.

Contents:
1. Introduction: The Re-evolution of Energy Policy in Europe by Israel Solorio and Francesc Morata

PART I: THE INTERNAL DIMENSION OF THE EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY
2. A ‘Coordinated’ European Energy Policy? The Integration of EU Energy and Climate Change Policies by Camilla Adelle, Duncan Russel and Marc Pallemaerts

3. Renewable Energy and Environmental Policy Integration: Renewable Fuel for the European Energy Policy? by Jørgen K. Knudsen

4. Europeanization through Diffusion? Renewable Energy Policies and Alternative Sources for European Convergence by Per-Olof Busch and Helge Jörgens

5. Carbon Capture and Storage: The Europeanization of a Technology in Europe’s Energy Policy? by Severin Fischer

6. Redrawing the ‘Green Europeanization’ of Energy Policy by Israel Solorio and Esther Zapater

PART II: THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF THE EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY
7. A Differential Approach to Energy Policy? Explaining the Prevalence of Market-based Energy Policy Instruments in Central and Eastern Europe by Michael Dobbins and Jale Tosun

8. The European Energy Policy Towards Eastern Neighbours: Rebalancing Priorities or Changing Paradigms? by Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Michal Natorski

9. Exporting the Good Example? European Energy Policy and Socialization in South-East Europe by Andrea Ciambra

10. Domestically-driven, Differentiated EU Rule Adoption: The Case of Energy Sector Reform in Turkey by Luigi Carafa

11. Morocco, the European Energy Policy and the Mediterranean Solar Plan by Gonzalo Escribano-Francés and Enrique San Martín González

12. Conclusions: Bridging over Environmental and Energy Policies by Francesc Morata and Israel Solorio