scholarly journals The Conditions of Successful Renewable Energy Governance. Exploring Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Energy Policy Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Nick Pruditsch
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Energy Governance

scholarly journals Energy policy as a social determinant of Australian health equity

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C MacDougall ◽  
T Delany-Crowe ◽  
F Baum ◽  
M Fisher ◽  
M McGreevy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Energy Policies

Abstract Background Intersectoral action on social determinants of health to reduce health inequities requires policy research beyond the usual social and human services. We ask how Australian energy policy affects health equity. Methods Document analysis and policy case studies on how goals, objectives and strategies of all Australian energy policies address equity. Results Energy policy affects health via risk from unreliable energy; difficult transitions to renewables; disproportionate effects on poorer people faced with high energy bills versus other basics; ecological degradation; cost pressures on businesses and governments; job losses and policy paralysis about renewable energy and climate change. Policy features subsidies for the disadvantaged; privatisation and artificial markets; differing geographical distribution of resources and high level political conflict about whether it can deliver on 3, or only 2, of the ’energy trilemma’ of reliability, affordability and ecological sustainability. Mining, industrial and political interests, powerful enough to orchestrate the downfall of Australian prime ministers, actively close policy links between health, climate change and energy. Bridging energy and health policy requires political support for market solutions involving renewables; community generation of renewable energy; solutions for rural and remote areas; and global treaties. Intergenerational equity is a strong policy lever. Conclusions Health in All Policies approaches can creatively engage with the language and concepts of energy policy via the daily conditions of living, inequity and climate change. When it is difficult to engage, researchers can connect with non-government organisations who bridge sectors through simultaneous advocacy for equitable health, climate and energy policies. Key messages Powerful interests burn bridges between health equity and energy policy. Local and global policy levers harmonising terminology differences build bridges between energy, climate change and health equity.

scholarly journals Utilizing natural resources of geothermal for villagers welfare

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Sjahriati Rochmah ◽  
Tri Hayati
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
National Energy Policy ◽  
Current Article

In National Energy Policy, Indonesia is determined to reduce the use of artifact energy, and continue to promote and increase the use of new renewable energy that is used by 23 percent for electricity and transportation in 2025. Bio-energy contributed to 10 percent, Geothermal contributed to 7 percent, Hydro contributed to 3 percent and other new renewable energy contributed to 3 percent. During this time, portfolio/energy mix target had not reached, as in 2015, only reach 5% and in 2016 reach 7 percent. To achieve the national energy resilience, government put geothermal as one of the supplies of pillar energy in the (National Medium-term Development Plan) RPJMN document. Beside government had promoted renewable energy as one of national strategy for instance to determine the energy policy and regulations for sustainable development but the result was not satisfied enough. The current article would explore the renewable energy governance in Indonesia that focused on the geothermal energy. The implementation of various policies, regulations, and programs should increase the awareness of the importance of renewable energy role in the sustainable development system. The transparency of fair governance and the participation of the stakeholders of development therefore it was a must.

scholarly journals Translating EU renewable energy policy for insular energy systems: Reunion Island's quest for energy autonomy

2017 ◽  
Vol 195 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Sawatzky ◽  
Moritz Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Renewable Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Renewable Energy Development ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Energy Autonomy

Recognition of the negative impacts of climate change has led to agreement on the need to decarbonise energy systems through the employment of renewable energy. With many national and transnational policies in place, the options available to insular energy systems (IES) differ from those of interconnected areas due to fragility in their production and distribution networks. Based on the concepts of policy mobility and translation, this study examines the interplay of EU renewable energy policy and insular governance processes aimed at achieving energy autonomy through renewable energy development. Reunion Island, a French Overseas Department and Region, is used as a case study to examine local energy governance processes, aspects that shape regional translation of national and EU policy, and the potential effects that create structures and pathways of energy transition. The study shows that Reunion Island’s regional Energy Governance Committee has significant application potential as a governance tool in other IES and small islands within the EU, but that renewable energy development is restricted due to national policy measures and path dependent governance structural constraints.

scholarly journals Wind, power, and the situatedness of community engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyomin Kim ◽  
Seung Hee Cho ◽  
Sungsoo Song
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
High Level

Jeju, an island in Korea, became a place to site wind turbines with an unusually high level of public acceptance. Based on interviews, media analyses, and policy research, we found that the collective memory of socio-economic deprivation enabled community engagement to matter to residents, the provincial government, and environmental activists. It was within socio-historically contextualized processes of articulating the vision of a “good” society that an actual form of community engagement, however inadequate it might appear to some, became relevant to stakeholders in a particular locality. We emphasize that community engagement in renewable energy governance does not have one but multiple and situated ways of mattering depending on local contexts.

scholarly journals Qualitative comparative analysis in educational policy research: Procedures, processes, and possibilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979911984098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea J Bingham ◽  
Sean Dean ◽  
Jessica Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Oriented Research

In educational policy research, linking specific practices to specific outcomes is an important (though not the only) goal, which can bias researchers (and funders) toward employing purely quantitative methods. Given the context-specific nature of policy implementation in education, however, we argue that understanding how specific practices lead to specific outcomes in specific conditions or contexts is critical to improving education. Qualitative comparative analysis is a method of qualitative research that we argue can help to answer these kinds of questions in studies of educational policies and reforms. Qualitative comparative analysis is a case-oriented research method designed to identify causal relationships between variables and a particular outcome. Distinct from quantitative causal methods, qualitative comparative analysis requires qualitative data to identify conditions (and combinations of conditions) that lead to a particular result; it is context driven, just as many educational reforms must necessarily be. We contend that qualitative comparative analysis has the potential to be of use to educational researchers in investigating complex problems of cause and effect using qualitative data. As such, our aim here is to provide a general overview of the characteristics, processes, and outcomes of qualitative comparative analysis. In so doing, we hope to offer guidance to educational researchers around how and when to use qualitative comparative analysis, as well as recommendations for current educational issues that could be investigated with qualitative comparative analysis.

scholarly journals Conflict cultures – Qualitative Comparative Analysis of environmental conflicts in forestry

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-109
Author(s):  
Eeva Hellström
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Resource Characteristics ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Analysis Models

Owing to the internationalisation of the forestry debate and forest policy, there is growing need to conduct comparative forest policy research at an international scale. This research compares environmental confl icts in forestry in seven cases during 1984–1995. The cases include Finland, France, Minnesota USA, Norway, Pacifi c Northwest USA, Sweden and West Germany. The research is based on the notion that each society has its own ‘cultural’ ways of producing and managing environmental confl icts in forestry, depending on the social, political, economic, and resource characteristics of the society. The purpose of the study is to describe these confl ict cultures, to identify and analyse the societal aspects that impact them, and to discuss the implications of understanding confl icts as cultural phenomena. The research is based on focused interviews of multiple actors related to forest management and protection. For the data analysis, a ‘hermeneutic’ (interpretative and understanding) approach is introduced to Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the use of which has been dominated by causal applications. As a result of the analysis, models of confl ict cultures and confl ict management strategies are constructed. The model of confl ict cultures indicates three basic dimensions of confl ict culture, and defi nes how they are related to each other. These dimensions are mild vs. intense confl icts, separatist vs. co-operative relations between actors and stability vs. change in forest resource policy and use. The model of confl ict management strategies indicates to what extent the different cases place emphasis on interactive vs. institutional confl ict management, and the management of confl icting (sub)cultures within the society vs. the confl ict culture of the society.

scholarly journals The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness: a qualitative comparative analysis of policy integration in regional transport planning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijn T. van Geet ◽  
Stefan Verweij ◽  
Tim Busscher ◽  
Jos Arts
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Regional Transport ◽  
Design Effectiveness

AbstractPolicy design has returned as a central topic in public policy research. An important area of policy design study deals with effectively attaining desired policy outcomes by aligning goals and means to achieve policy design fit. So far, only a few empirical studies have explored the relationship between policy design fit and effectiveness. In this paper, we adopt the multilevel framework for policy design to determine which conditions of policy design fit—i.e., goal coherence, means consistency, and congruence of goals and means across policy levels—are necessary and/or sufficient for policy design effectiveness in the context of policy integration. To this end, we performed a qualitative comparative analysis of Dutch regional transport planning including all twelve provinces. Outcomes show no condition is necessary and two combinations of conditions are sufficient for effectiveness. The first sufficient combination confirms what the literature suggests, namely that policy design fit results in policy design effectiveness. The second indicates that the combination goal incoherence and incongruence of goals and means is sufficient for policy design effectiveness. An in-depth interpretation of this counterintuitive result leads to the conclusion that for achieving policy integration the supportive relationship between policy design fit and policy design effectiveness is less straightforward as theory suggests. Instead, results indicate there are varying degrees of coherence, consistency, and congruence that affect effectiveness in different ways. Furthermore, outcomes reveal that under specific circumstances a policy design may be effective in promoting desired policy integration even if it is incoherent, inconsistent, and/or incongruent.

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