气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy

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DOI	10.1002/wcc.655
	The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy
	Fraser T.; Aldrich D.P.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1757-7780
EISSN	1757-7779
英文摘要	This paper reviews the changing role of domestic political institutions, including local governments and courts, in Japan's energy policy over the 8 years since the Fukushima disaster, focusing on the nuclear and renewable power industries. We explain how a variety of hidden subsidies created financial dependency in communities hosting nuclear power plants and led to local officials hoping to restart nuclear power plants after the meltdowns despite wide-scale opposition. Later, the introduction of a feed-in tariff (FiT) brought a wider range of towns into the field of renewable energy, but vulnerable towns with weaker social networks continue to bear a large share of Japan's energy infrastructure. Courts, prefectures, and local firms have become intervening agents in the renewable energy market, but utilities have pushed back, encouraging the state to overturn the FiT and create auctions for renewable power contracts instead. With subnational governments and courts more powerful in energy policy since the meltdowns, and a variety of new actors involved in renewable energy, post-Fukushima energy policy has become more democratized. This article is categorized under: The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Decarbonizing Energy and/or Reducing Demand. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
英文关键词	feed-in tariff; Fukushima nuclear accident; Japan; nuclear energy; renewable energy
语种	英语
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/129904
作者单位	Political Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States; Director of Security and Resilience Studies Program and Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fraser T.,Aldrich D.P.. The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy[J],2020.
APA	Fraser T.,&Aldrich D.P..(2020).The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.
MLA	Fraser T.,et al."The Fukushima effect at home: The changing role of domestic actors in Japanese energy policy".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (2020).