Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland
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Paula Kivimaa, Marja H. Sivonen. Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland. Energy Research & Social Science 75 (2021), 102024, ISSN 2214-6296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102024
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| Title: | Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland |
| Author: | Kivimaa, Paula; Sivonen, Marja H. |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Language: | eng |
| Belongs to series: | Energy Research & Social Science 75 (2021), 102024 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102024 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/335005 |
| Abstract: | Sustainable Development Goals aim for a better future, but gains are threatened by conflict and governance failures, exacerbated by climate change. While research on energy security is well-established, conceptual-analytical research on sustainability transitions has paid little attention to security threats as factors influencing transitions or security policy as part of policy mixes. This paper combines policy coherence and integration analysis of energy and security strategy documents with sustainability transitions’ research, considering how landscape pressures and energy niches are presented in documents pertaining to Estonia, Finland and Scotland during 2006–2020. The findings show that security and energy policies present a functional overlap. Yet, policy integration and coherence are insufficiently addressed, conflicts created by coexisting low-carbon and hydrocarbon-based security considerations. An increasingly multifaceted landscape creates a complicated policy environment where pursuing policy coherence becomes harder. Despite the accelerating energy transition, the security implications of energy niches have received too little attention. |
| Description: | Highlights • Combining policy coherence and integration with sustainability transitions. • Policy document analysis explored the interplay of energy and security policies. • Security and defence at times integrated in energy policy, particularly in Estonia. • Lack of coherence between low-carbon energy transition and national security policy. • Security inferences of growing energy niches little covered in strategy documents. |
| Subject: |
climate policy
decarbonisation energy policy geopolitics national defence low-carbon energy transition national security analysis analysis of policy integration and coherence policy integration coherence Estonia Finland Scotland policy document analysis security policy energy security conceptual-analytical research on sustainability transition security threats security strategy security strategy documents landscape pressure energy niche hydrocarbon low-carbon and hydrocarbon-based security considerations policy environment policy coherence energy transition 517 Political science 519 Social and economic geography Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Nuclear Energy and Engineering Fuel Technology Energy Engineering and Power Technology Social Sciences |
| Subject (ysa): |
geopolitiikka
ilmastopolitiikka energiapolitiikka maanpuolustus turvallisuus sisällönanalyysi Viro Suomi Skotlanti |
| Rights: | CC BY 4.0 |
| Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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