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Putting off the coal in Europe: Socio-economic trade-offs across the European regions 欧洲推迟燃煤：欧洲各地区的社会经济取舍

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114360

MiguelÁngel Almazán-Gómez , Carlos Llano , Julián Pérez

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Neighbor's profit or Neighbor's beggar? Evidence from China's low carbon cities pilot scheme on green development 邻居的利润还是邻居的乞丐？中国低碳城市绿色发展试点的证据

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114318

Bei Zhu , Tomoaki Nakaishi , Shigemi Kagawa

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Governance in multi-system transitions: A new methodological approach for actor involvement in policy making processes 多系统过渡时期的治理：行动者参与决策过程的新方法论

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114313

Aslı Ateş , Karoline S. Rogge , Katherine Lovell

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Equity-based energy retrofits to address energy poverty in Canada 以公平为基础的能源改造，解决加拿大的能源贫困问题

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114341

Laura Tozer , Guilherme Baggio , Abhilash Kantamneni , Hannah MacRae

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Carbon taxes, CO2 emissions, and the economy: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK 碳税、二氧化碳排放与经济：英国燃料税的影响

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114359

Lucas Bretschger , Elise Grieg

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Managing forest residues for biodiversity, bioenergy, and smoke reduction: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Tasmania, Australia 为生物多样性、生物能源和减少烟雾而管理森林残留物：澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚离散选择实验的启示

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114351

Bassie Yizengaw Limenih , Natalie Stoeckl , Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra , Peter Volker

{"title":"Managing forest residues for biodiversity, bioenergy, and smoke reduction: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Tasmania, Australia","authors":"Bassie Yizengaw Limenih , Natalie Stoeckl , Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra , Peter Volker","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114351","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114351","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The management of forest residue following timber harvesting is an important global issue. If forest residues are not managed appropriately, they can increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires, negatively impact wildlife and aesthetic values. These risks can be reduced if forest residues are used for bioenergy production, which can also generate jobs, but using forest residues for bioenergy production may adversely impact biodiversity. We explore public preferences relating to the varied impacts of forest residue management outcomes using data collected for a Discrete Choice Experiment in Tasmania, Australia. On average, respondents were willing to pay AUD 34, AUD 29, and AUD 14 per year, respectively, to reduce smoke emissions, increase the abundance and diversity of invertebrate species, and create employment. This suggests that Tasmanian forest managers may find public support for residue management practices that include the production of at least some bioenergy products. Moreover, the social benefits of the state-wide harvesting of forest residues for bioenergy could be positive even with relatively high costs. WTP varied by age, education, environmental group membership, invertebrate fear, and wildfire exposure. The influence of these factors varies across regions, offering insights into forest residue management for regions with similar socioeconomic and environmental contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"195 ","pages":"Article 114351"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A comparative study of strategic petroleum reserve policies of major countries in the world 世界主要国家战略石油储备政策比较研究

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114362

Lei Zhang

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How diversification in energy and economic sectors influences environmental quality: International evidence 能源和经济部门的多样化如何影响环境质量？国际证据

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114347

Dung Phuong Hoang , Lan Khanh Chu , Thanh Trung To , Ha Thanh Le

{"title":"How diversification in energy and economic sectors influences environmental quality: International evidence","authors":"Dung Phuong Hoang , Lan Khanh Chu , Thanh Trung To , Ha Thanh Le","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diversification in economic and energy sectors has been proven to contribute enormously to economic development. However, given the sustainability targets, the effectiveness of those strategies in alleviating environmental deterioration is ambiguous. This research examines how economic complexity and energy diversification could affect the levels of carbon emissions among economies that are in different phases of economic growth. Applying a novel panel quantile regression to a sample of 66 economies from 1995 to 2018, dividing into high-income, upper-middle-income, and lower-middle-income subgroups, allows us to reveal and compare the heterogeneous impacts across different levels of carbon emissions and income levels. The empirical results reveal that the environmental impacts of both economic complexity and energy diversification are not only heterogeneous across quantiles of carbon emissions but also vary among high-, upper-middle-, and lower-middle-income countries. While economic sophistication improves environmental sustainability in high- and upper-middle-income countries, it exacerbates ecological degradation in lower-middle-income countries. While energy diversification benefits environmental quality across all quantiles of carbon emissions in both upper and lower-middle-income countries, a harmful effect of energy diversification is only found in some high-income economies. Our research findings suggest that although energy and economic diversification could be a viable path for upper-middle-income countries to attain sustainability targets, these strategies should be combined with other environmental protection strategies to demonstrate desirable environmental benefits in high-income and lower-middle-income countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"195 ","pages":"Article 114347"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Green innovation and carbon emission performance: The role of digital economy 绿色创新与碳排放绩效：数字经济的作用

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114344

Ziyi Zhao , Yuhuan Zhao , Xunpeng Shi , Lu Zheng , Shunan Fan , Sumin Zuo

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Shaping stable support: Leveraging digital feedback interventions to elicit socio-Political acceptance of renewable energy 形成稳定的支持：利用数字反馈干预，激发社会政治对可再生能源的接受度

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114307

Felix Wagon , Gilbert Fridgen , Verena Tiefenbeck

{"title":"Shaping stable support: Leveraging digital feedback interventions to elicit socio-Political acceptance of renewable energy","authors":"Felix Wagon , Gilbert Fridgen , Verena Tiefenbeck","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In democratic countries, the success of energy policies hinges on citizens' support and their acceptance of policy outcomes. In this study, we develop a digital feedback intervention to prompt citizens with information that visualizes the geographical distribution of wind turbines and to evaluate the effects on socio-political acceptance. In an online experiment, we exposed 430 German citizens to a personalized digital feedback intervention and elicited their acceptance of renewable wind energy. The results are threefold: First, citizens' acceptance of renewable wind energy that results from digital feedback is lower than initially claimed. Second, citizens who meaningfully engage with the digital feedback intervention are more likely to revise their acceptance of wind energy. Third, and surprisingly, citizens’ ecological attitude and place attachment to their current residence had no significant effect on the extent to which they revised their acceptance of renewable wind energy. Our results demonstrate that digital feedback interventions can act as a “sensor” for socio-political acceptance. This contributes to informing citizens about energy policy outcomes and provides valuable insights for policymakers promoting a participatory democracy paradigm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"195 ","pages":"Article 114307"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421524003276/pdfft?md5=a8f49cea5cf8d26ac48df5186efda90e&pid=1-s2.0-S0301421524003276-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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