Overview
- Provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and bioenergy policymaking
- Develops an analytical framework for the derivation of bioenergy policy recommendations
- Highlights a case study analysis of Germany’s bioenergy policy
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 55)
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About this book
This book provides an in-depth economic analysis of the challenges associated with bioenergy use and production. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and the theory of economic policy, it develops theory-based recommendations for a bioenergy policy that strives for efficiency and sustainability. Further, it shows how to deal with diverse uncertainties and constraints, such as institutional path dependencies, transaction costs, multiple and conflicting policy aims, and interacting market failures, while also applying the resulting theoretical insights to a case study analysis of Germany’s bioenergy policy. As such, the book aims to bridge the gap between practical bioenergy policymaking on the one hand, and neoclassical theory-based concepts that strictly focus on a minimization of greenhouse gas mitigation costs on the other.
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About the author
Alexandra Purkus is an economic researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. She holds a Diploma in Economics with an Environmental Focus from the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, and a Master of Science by Research in Global Environmental Change from the University of Edinburgh, UK. At the UFZ, Alexandra Purkus wrote her doctoral thesis as part of an interdisciplinary working group on bioenergy systems analysis, in cooperation with the Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) and the University of Leipzig. Currently, her research focuses on renewable energy policy design and governance challenges of transitioning to a bioeconomy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Concepts and Instruments for a Rational Bioenergy Policy
Book Subtitle: A New Institutional Economics Approach
Authors: Alexandra Purkus
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31135-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31134-0Published: 22 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80972-4Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31135-7Published: 21 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 404
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Renewable and Green Energy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy