气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The EU's Clean Energy strategy for islands: A policy perspective on Malta's spatial governance in energy transition

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111361
	The EU's Clean Energy strategy for islands: A policy perspective on Malta's spatial governance in energy transition
	Kotzebue J.R.; Weissenbacher M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	139
英文摘要	The European Union has more than 2200 inhabited islands. Many keep relying on fossil fuel-based energy systems, even though they are endowed with renewable energy resources (RES) and have access to gradually improving renewable energy technologies. In May 2017 the EU Commission and 14 member states with island territories signed the so-called “Valletta Declaration” in Malta's capital. The declaration states that islands can be favorable for innovative solutions and investments in local renewable energy production, given the abundance of various RES. However, the island nation of Malta features very low renewable energy shares within the EU. The Energy transition theory in the field of sustainable transition studies explains social and technological system-wide evolution and innovation, but only few scholars have focused on spatial governance in islands’ energy transition. Malta's urbanization rate is about 95%, which creates a spatially extreme situation. The policy perspective clarifies the role of spatial governance in Malta's energy transition from a fossil fuel-based to a non-fossil fuel-based country. A theoretical spatial governance framework guides the analysis. The perspective highlights that Malta's centralized and hierarchical spatial governance structure creates an environment, in which the spatial situation is used to argue against small and de-centralized renewable technologies. © 2020
关键词	Energy transition EU energy policy Renewable energy Small island states Spatial governance
英文关键词	Economic and social effects; Fossil fuel deposits; Fossil fuels; Public policy; Renewable energy resources; Energy transitions; EU energy policies; Renewable energies; Small island; Spatial governance; Investments; alternative energy; energy policy; European Union; governance approach; policy approach; renewable resource; small island state; Malta [Southern Europe]
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204727
作者单位	Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, Hamburg, 20146, Germany; Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Malta, First Floor, Regional Building, Triq l-Imhallef Paolo Debono, Msida, Malta
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kotzebue J.R.,Weissenbacher M.. The EU's Clean Energy strategy for islands: A policy perspective on Malta's spatial governance in energy transition[J],2020,139.
APA	Kotzebue J.R.,&Weissenbacher M..(2020).The EU's Clean Energy strategy for islands: A policy perspective on Malta's spatial governance in energy transition.Energy Policy,139.
MLA	Kotzebue J.R.,et al."The EU's Clean Energy strategy for islands: A policy perspective on Malta's spatial governance in energy transition".Energy Policy 139(2020).