Dear colleagues, We're pleased to announce the publication of our new book:
The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform Edited by Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt, Cambridge University Press. Available in Hardback and Open Access<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/politics-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-their-reform?format=HB>. ISBN 9781108416795 Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform, and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of political science, international relations, law, public policy, and environmental studies. The book: * Contains the first academic collection of analyses of the global and domestic politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform * Offers new insights into why - notwithstanding its obvious benefits - fossil fuel subsidy reform sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds * Applies an analytical framework allowing readers to place fossil fuel subsidies within a wider political science context With expert contributions from: Shalu Agrawal, Aaron Atteridge, Steven Bernstein, Mathieu Blondeel, Jesse Burton, Kathryn Chelminski, Karthik Ganesan, Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Matthew Hoffmann, Abhishek Jain, Phil Johnstone, Doug Koplow, Kati Kulovesi, Nathan Lemphers, Tawney Lott, Laura Merrill, Tom S. H. Moerenhout, Peter Newell, Angélica Puertas Velasco, Britta Rennkamp, Vernon Rive, Jehan Sauvage, Michelle Scobie, Jakob Skovgaard, Ronald Steenblik, Claudia Strambo, Christina Timiliotis, Harro van Asselt, Thijs Van de Graaf, Laurie van der Burg and Shelagh Whitley Pre-publication praise: "... an essential, comprehensive guide to understanding the issue .... Anyone concerned with the political economy of climate change will benefit from Skovgaard and van Asselt's important book." Prof. Michael Ross, UCL "... This volume offers a comprehensive review of the problem, the politics surrounding it, and experiences with reform efforts in different countries. Skovgaard and van Asselt have compiled an excellent collection on one of the great public policy problems of our time." Prof. Johannes Urpelainen, Johns Hopkins University "... In both its wide scope, as well as its incisive treatment, this is a field-defining volume of a critical topic." Navroz K. Dubash, Centre for Policy Research -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
