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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Klimatpolitisk styrningsproblematik
- 2011
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Ingår i: Vägval 2050: Styrningsutmaningar och förändringsstrategier för en omställning till ett kolsnålt samhälle. ; , s. 22-27
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Andersen, M. S., et al.
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To facilitate a fair bioeconomy transition, stronger regional-level linkages are needed
- 2022
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Ingår i: Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr. - : Wiley. - 1932-104X .- 1932-1031. ; 16:4, s. 929-941
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The great hopes in Brussels that a circular bioeconomy will help bridge the growing divide between urban and rural areas and allow the hinterlands to prosper from 'green growth' are addressed in this article, which reflects on insights from three Nordic case studies of brown, green and blue biomass use at different levels of technology readiness. A closer examination of the forward, backward, fiscal and final demand linkages at regional level from increased biomass utilization, from eastern Finland and northern Sweden to Jutland and North Atlantic islands, suggests that linkages are and will remain relatively weak, predominantly dashing the expectations. As suppliers and exporters of natural resources, disadvantaged regions may all too easily get locked into a 'staples trap', where the value creation evaporates owing in part to the steep start-up costs and the associated boom-and-bust cycles, which place them in a weak position vis-a-vis the resource manufacturers and consumers. To make the prospects of development, employment and prosperity in the hinterlands materialize, measures are needed to strengthen the regional-level economic linkages. Regional-level revolving funds based on benefit-sharing instruments related to natural resources can be used to bolster economic development, as reflected in such schemes present in both China and Canada. We call for further research into whether and how such approaches can be replicated successfully by channeling revenues from biomass cultivation to regional-scale revolving funds, with mandates to strengthen long-term economic linkages and prosperity within the hinterlands. (c) 2022 The Authors. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining published by Society of Industrial Chemistry and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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- Andersson, Fredrik N G, et al.
(författare)
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Möjlighetsfönster står öppet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Sydsvenskan. - 1652-814X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Bengtsson Sonesson, Ludwig, et al.
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Carbon Ruins : An exhibition of the fossil age
- 2019
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is 2053. The Swedish government has just opened its landmark museum FOSSIL with its first exhibition Carbon Ruins. The exhibition and its grand opening is a celebration of the fact that global net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide were reached in 2050. Sweden, in line with its 2017 targets, reached net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases already in 2045, being the first country in the world to step out of the fossil age, which globally lasted between 1849 and 2049.‘Carbon Ruins’ aims to transport the visitor into a future where transitions to post-fossil society has already happened. By focusing on recognisable objects the exhibition bridges the gap between the daily lives of humans and the abstract impacts of climate change. The choice of the objects and the associated stories are based on climate models and expertise from the Narrating Climate Futures network. The characters and events which construct the story have been generated through participatory workshops with researchers and practitioners in food, transport, steel, energy and plastic
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- Fritz, Martin, et al.
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Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology. - : Wiley. - 0007-1315 .- 1468-4446. ; 72:4, s. 874-890
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore peoples' dispositions and practices with regard to social–ecological transformations based on a sustainable welfare policy strategy in Sweden. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of habitus to highlight the relations between social positions, dispositions, and position-takings. Using data from an own survey, we identify habitus types and place these in the space of social positions. We apply principal component analysis to a large set of questions about social, ecological, and climate change related topics and identify eight underlying eco–social dispositions. These are used for cluster analyses that find typical constellations of eco–social dispositions within the Swedish population: variants of eco–social habitus. We find seven habitus types and describe their social characteristics, political preferences, and practices. Finally, the seven habitus are plotted onto the map of social positions, the Bourdieusian social space, highlighting their relations—proximities, tensions, and contestations—to each other. We find evidence that political struggles around social–ecological transformations reproduce existing social structures but are also connected to new “eco–social” divisions that appear between groups in similar positions. In the conclusion we discuss the implications for social–ecological transformations based on sustainable welfare.
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- Garczyna Johansson, Sebastian, et al.
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Ursäkta, men hur löd klimatfrågan?
- 2013
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Ingår i: 15 nedslag i klimatforskningen: Dåtid Nutid Framtid. - 9789163723384 ; , s. 29-44
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Klimatomställning ses av många som en väg ut ur den hotande klimatkrisen. Problemet är bara att klimatomställning inte är ett entydigt begrepp, varför det i klimatdebatten förekommer olika uppfattningar om hur genomgripande samhällsförändringar som krävs för att begränsa den globala uppvärmningen. Somliga ser en radikal omställning av de ekonomiska och politiska systemen som en nödvändighet, medan andra ser stegvisa reformer inom ramarna för den befintliga ordningen som en möjlig väg framåt. Vad detta innebär för klimatpolitiken diskuteras av statsvetarna Sebastian Garczyna Johansson och Roger Hildingsson.
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- Haug, Constanze, et al.
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Navigating the dilemmas of climate policy in Europe: evidence from policy evaluation studies
- 2010
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Ingår i: Climatic Change. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0165-0009 .- 1573-1480. ; 101:3-4, s. 427-445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change is widely recognised as a 'wicked' policy problem. Agreeing and implementing governance responses is proving extremely difficult. Policy makers in many jurisdictions now emphasise their ambition to govern using the best available evidence. One obvious source of such evidence is the evaluations of the performance of existing policies. But to what extent do these evaluations provide insights into the difficult dilemmas that governors typically encounter? We address this question by reviewing the content of 262 evaluation studies of European climate policies in the light of six kinds of dilemma found in the governance literature. We are interested in what these studies say about the performance of European climate policies and in their capacity to inform evidence-based policy-making. We find that the evaluations do arrive at common findings: that climate change is framed as a problem of market and/or state failure; that voluntary measures tend to be ineffective; that market-based instruments tend to be regressive; that EU-level policies have driven climate policies in the latecomer EU Member States; and that lack of monitoring and weak enforcement are major obstacles to effective policy implementation. However, we also conclude that the evidence base these studies represent is surprisingly weak for such a high profile area. There is too little systematic climate policy evaluation work in the EU to support systematic evidence-based policy making. This reduces the scope for sound policy making in the short run and is a constraint to policy learning in the longer term.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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En (annan) hållbar utveckling
- 2012
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Ingår i: Fronesis. - 1404-2614. ; :nr 38-39, s. 196-203
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- Hildingsson, Roger
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Governing Decarbonisation : The State and the New Politics of Climate Change
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new politics concerns transformative social change aimed at moving society away from its current dependence on fossil carbon energy. A transition to low-carbon societal development hinges on restructuring and decarbonising those key systems, structures and practices that generate carbon emissions. Engaging with theoretical perspectives on the state in environmental governance and its role in steering policy change and enabling system transformations, I examine how the state can govern decarbonisation through exploring empirical examples across a wide range of policy sectors such as energy, transport and industry. Given the centrality of state authority in the organisation of modern society, a low carbon transition is conditioned on authoritative steering, long-term active support of state institutions and a diversified portfolio of policy approaches and objectives. The material for this compilation thesis is drawn from the Swedish policy realm. The included papers analyse the development of arrangements for environmental governance, climate policy discourse and institutional conditions for governing low-carbon transitions by means of public policy in Sweden. A key insight across these papers is that the state remains a critical site for steering and enabling system transformations. A modern (environmental) welfare state, such as Sweden, holds untapped capacities to govern decarbonisation by progressively advancing and scaling up the efforts to reorient societal development. Thus, a decarbonising state can be made more actively engaged in steering and enabling processes of low-carbon transitions, and could explore new ways for orchestrating a wide range of low-carbon initiatives and developments.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Governing low-carbon energy transitions in sustainable ways: Potential synergies and conflicts between climate and environmental policy objectives
- 2016
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Ingår i: Energy Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-6777 .- 0301-4215. ; 88, s. 245-252
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change is a central sustainability concern, but is often treated separately from other policy areas in environmental governance. In this article we study how low-carbon energy transitions might be governed in line with broader sustainability goals. We identify conflicts and synergies between low- carbon strategies and the attainment of longer-term environmental objectives by examining the Swedish environmental quality objectives as a governance arrangement. Our analysis indicates that low-carbon strategies might be compatible with preserving other aspects of ecological sustainability. However, this requires relevant flanking policies and measures for non-climate objectives, e.g. systems that control the expansion of biomass and ensure the use of sustainable methods. For such a governance system to be credible and capable, it needs to be flexible in terms of adapting to specific and changing contexts, and reflexive enough to factor in new knowledge on requirements for sustainable development and potentially changing values of future generations.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Governing renewable energy in the EU: Confronting a governance dilemma
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Political Science. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1682-0983 .- 1680-4333. ; 11:1, s. 18-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Promoting renewable energy sources (RES) has been addressed a key strategy for mitigating climate change, the governing in which has turned out a challenging and protracted task for the EU. There is often an implicit assumption that concern for climate change drives energy policy, but a closer look at the development of European RES policy indicates how EU governors have had to confront a range of governance dilemmas in trying to balance various objectives and conflicting interests. Therefore, while energy security and environmental concerns have provided a rationale for crafting renewable energy as a specific EU policy domain, the main driver for RES policy coordination has been internal market concerns, and not the concern about an impending climate catastrophe. More recently, rising concerns about energy insecurity and climate change have forced the EU to seek greater policy coordination in the context of more integrated energy markets. Although seemingly propitious for further harmonisation, it is doubtful whether the Member States and their citizens are yet prepared to accept new efforts towards deeper integration of European energy policy.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Greening the welfare state: Confronting the ecological state with the realities of welfare state transformations
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we explore the potential of cross-fertilization between research on welfare state reforms and on efforts to green the state in response to ecological challenges. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the conditions for an ecological state to emerge we relate welfare state studies to green political theory, that provide different conceptions of the ecological state and ways to green the state, and to comparativist environmental politics that trace patterns of policy change and institutionalization for greening the state in practice. Recently some scholars have made analogies between the evolution of the ecological state and the genesis of once the welfare state. However, while providing insights on such similarities and on the kind of challenges environmental change poses for the welfare state, our concern is rather what challenges contemporary welfare state transformations pose for the efforts to green the state. How are we to understand calls for the revitalization of the state in light of key contradictions in welfare state developments such as the fiscal crisis of welfare states, liberalization of welfare policies and increasing inequalities? In this sense, the marketization of environmental policy and individualization of ecological responsibilities could be understood in analogy with the retrenchment and recommodification of welfare policy. Such welfare state developments has critical implications for the efforts to strengthen state competences and capacities for governing societies towards ecologically sustainable and socially just ends, e.g. in terms of legitimizing and organizing both ecological and social aspirations.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Intervjustudie om förutsättningar för nollutsläpp i den svenska basindustrin
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna rapport presenteras resultaten av den intervjustudie och efterföljande fokusgruppsdiskussion som vi genomfört inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Green Industrial Transitions (GIST, www.gist2050.com). Forskningsprojektets huvudsyfte är att studera förutsättningarna för en omställning till nollutsläpp av koldioxid inom den svenska basindustrin samt analysera strategier, åtgärder och styrmedel som kan bidra till grön industriell omvandling. Under hösten 2016 genomfördes 30 semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer aktiva inom industri, politik, myndigheter och intresseorganisationer, som valdes ut för att representera hela sektorn på ett rättvisande sätt. Frågorna i intervjustudien handlade om klimatstyrning av basindustrin idag, möjligheter till en omställning till nollutsläpp och hur styrningen behöver utvecklas.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Renewable Energies: A Continuing Balancing Act?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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The green state and industrial decarbonisation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 28:5, s. 909-928
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group The large share of carbon emitted by energy-intensive industries in the extraction and processing of basic materials must be limited to decarbonise society and the economy. Ways in which the state can govern industrial decarbonisation and contributes to green state theory are explored by addressing a largely ignored issue: the green state’s industrial relations and its role in industrial governance. With insights from a Swedish case study, the tension between the state’s economic imperative and ecological concerns in greening industry are shown to persist. However, as the energy-intensive industry’s previously privileged position in the economy is weakening, industry is opened to decarbonisation strategies. While the case exposes a number of governance challenges, it also suggests potential areas where the state can pursue decarbonisation in energy-intensive industry and points the way to an active role of the green state in governing industrial decarbonisation and greening industry.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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The Swedish carbon tax: A resilient success
- 2022
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Ingår i: Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries: Cases, Lessons, Challenges. - : Oxford University PressOxford. - 9780192856296 - 9780191946714 ; , s. 239-262
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish carbon tax of 1991, one of the first of its kind, has positioned Sweden as a forerunner in climate governance. It is often depicted an international success and today constitutes the backbone of Swedish climate policy. At first, however, the tax received widespread criticism and had limited political support. The policy design process was short, with limited time for deliberation. While providing the required tax revenues for the tax reform of which it was part, it was set at a level too low to reach the political goal of stabilizing carbon emissions. However, over the years, the tax has been redesigned, strengthening its delivery and gradually increasing political support. Discounts for industry motivated by competitiveness concerns have eased opposition, while households have carried the main burden. This has formed the basis for a counter-narrative about distributive impacts, which, however, has not yet succeeded in getting hold politically and only temporarily hindered continued increases in the tax rate. In terms of the four success dimensions in the PPPE assessment framework (programmatic, process, political and endurance), it represents what McConnell (2010) would call a ‘resilient success’—not perfect but a policy successful to a second-best degree. This chapter tells the story of how a highly energy dependent and export-oriented Nordic country came to introduce this novel policy so early on, and how a policy that initially was not seen as a success, over time came to be taken for granted.
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- Hildingsson, Roger, et al.
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Towards a decarbonized green state? The politics of low-carbon governance in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance towards Climate and Sustainability Transitions. - 9781138792517 ; Routledge Studies in Sustainability, s. 156-173
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter we explore how a decarbonized green state might develop. Climate governance provides venues towards decarbonization and for greening the state by steering and enabling transformative social change. We study low-carbon transitions in Sweden in a set of policy sectors for their potential to reduce carbon emissions, spur innovation and enter policy paths towards decarbonization. Sweden has been successful in supporting transitions in the energy sector but decarbonization is not institutionalized in the transport and industry sectors. While lacking a strategic focus on long-term decarbonization climate policy is dominated by the market-liberal norm of cost-efficiency.
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- Huitema, Dave, et al.
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The evaluation of climate policy: theory and emerging practice in Europe
- 2011
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Ingår i: Policy Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 44:2, s. 179-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate policy is a relatively young and dynamic area of public policy making. However, its development has attracted far more attention than the results it delivers in practice, which of course are the concern of policy evaluators. This article attempts to provide the first systematic cataloging of the emerging patterns of policy evaluation undertaken in different parts of the European Union. Theories of policy evaluation suggest that these evaluation practices should acknowledge the inherent complexity of climate policy making, be reflexive by questioning official policy goals, and be participatory. A meta-analysis of 259 climate policy evaluations suggests that current practice engages with some but not all of these issues. This article concludes by analyzing the implications of this finding for those in the academic and practitioner community who are keen to understand the extent to which climate policy evaluation is delivering on its promises.
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