James Meadowcroft, Oluf Langhelle
Edward Elgar Publishing
2009
ISBN: 1848444125 9781848444126
315 pages
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The focus of the book is on the construction of arguments about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the public sphere, the coalitions of actors who have articulated distinctive perspectives on CCS and the varied strategies governments have adopted to integrate it into climate and energy policies.

Students, scholars and researchers from a wide variety of fields who are interested in climate change, energy policy, and the politics and policy of the environment will find this book illuminating, as will officials and policy makers in international organizations and governments.

The authors analyse the issues decision-makers now confront in encouraging the uptake of the technology, managing uncertainties and regulating attendant risks.
The book includes case studies of the reception of CCS in seven OECD countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Abbreviations and acronyms
Acknowledgements
1. The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage
2. Technology leader, policy laggard: CCS development for climate mitigation in the US political c
3. CCS in Australia: from political posturing to policy potential
4. CCS in Canada
5. Technology as political glue: CCS in Norway
6. Electricity gap versus climate change: electricity politics and the potential role of CCS in Germa
7. CCS in the UK: squaring coal use with climate change?
8. CCS in the Netherlands: glass half empty or half full?
9. CCS and the European Union: magic bullet or pure magic?
10. CCS in comparative perspective
11. The politics and policy of CCS: the uncertain road ahead
Index

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