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The EU Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Agenda: An Emergent Domain of Transnational Action

Bouzarovski, Stefan; Petrova, S

In: Energy Policy Making in the EU. London: Springer; 2015. p. 129-144.

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Abstract

This chapter explores the organisational and political complexities surrounding the adoption of energy poverty agendas and policies at the EU decision-making level. Theoretically, it is based on the literature on policy mobilities. Empirically, it engages in a triangulation of data from the secondary literature and interviews in various EU institutions. The analysis shows that agenda-shaping in the EU poverty domain has been mainly driven from above and has been highly contingent on attempts to ???define??? and ???identify??? the problem. There is little evidence to suggest that particular events or dynamics have provided a central impetus for European action in this domain. Only in recent years have energy poverty concerns started to enter mainstream EU policy agendas, principally as a result of the Commission???s efforts surrounding the implementation of the Third Energy Package.

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Book contribution
Book contribution title:
The EU Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Agenda: An Emergent Domain of Transnational Action
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Book title:
Energy Policy Making in the EU
Publication date:
2015
Place of publication:
London
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Springer
Contribution start page:
129
Contribution end page:
144
Contribution pagination:
129-144
Contribution total pages:
16
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Abstract:
This chapter explores the organisational and political complexities surrounding the adoption of energy poverty agendas and policies at the EU decision-making level. Theoretically, it is based on the literature on policy mobilities. Empirically, it engages in a triangulation of data from the secondary literature and interviews in various EU institutions. The analysis shows that agenda-shaping in the EU poverty domain has been mainly driven from above and has been highly contingent on attempts to ???define??? and ???identify??? the problem. There is little evidence to suggest that particular events or dynamics have provided a central impetus for European action in this domain. Only in recent years have energy poverty concerns started to enter mainstream EU policy agendas, principally as a result of the Commission???s efforts surrounding the implementation of the Third Energy Package.
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  • Related website http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-6645-0_7

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Manchester eScholar ID:
uk-ac-man-scw:261249
Created by:
Bouzarovski, Stefan
Created:
19th March, 2015, 00:05:58
Last modified by:
Bouzarovski, Stefan
Last modified:
19th March, 2015, 00:25:13

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