解释气候变化政策惯性：英国决策者对建筑能效的看法

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104243

Mitya Pearson

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为什么可持续能源转型往往在政治上难以实现？本文通过研究英国政府在2010年至2024年间的建筑能效政策来研究这个问题。本文调查了在这一领域取得的相对有限的进展，并利用对政策制定者的采访来了解这背后的原因，强调了无益的政治条件，政策制定者对能源效率和英国政策制定过程的各个方面的紧张情绪。这个案例表明，即使没有重要的现任游说，气候政策中断也可能发生，失败的政策举措可能引发长期的政策缺口，在激进的政策转变和稳定的投资框架之间，能源转型可能存在紧张关系。

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Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom

Why do sustainable energy transitions often prove politically difficult to deliver? This article examines this question by studying UK government policy on building energy efficiency between 2010 and 2024. The article investigates the relatively limited progress made in this area and uses interviews with policymakers to understand the reasons behind this, highlighting unhelpful political conditions, a nervousness among policymakers about energy efficiency and aspects of the UK policymaking process. This case demonstrates that climate policy hiatuses can occur even without significant incumbent lobbying, failed policy initiatives can trigger extended policy gaps, and that there can be a tension in energy transitions between radical policy shifts and stable investment frameworks.

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.