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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111494
	Disruptive and uncertain: Policy makers’ perceptions on UK heat decarbonisation
	Lowes R.; Woodman B.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	142
英文摘要	The decarbonisation of heating represents a transformative challenge for many countries. The UK's net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target requires the removal of fossil fuel combustion from heating in just three decades. A greater understanding of policy processes linked to system transformations is expected to be of value for understanding systemic change; how policy makers perceive policy issues can impact on policy change with knock-on effects for energy system change. This article builds on the literature considering policy maker perceptions and focuses on the issue of UK heat policy. Using qualitative analysis, we show that policy makers perceive heat decarbonisation as disruptive, technological pathways are seen as deeply uncertain and heat decarbonisation appears to offer policy makers little ‘up-side’. Perceptions are bounded by uncertainty, affected by concerns over negative impacts, influenced by external influences and relate to ideas of continuity. Further research and evidence on optimal heat decarbonisation and an adaptive approach to governance could support policy makers to deliver policy commensurate with heat decarbonisation. However even with reduced uncertainty and more flexible governance, the perceptions of disruption to consumers mean that transformative heat policy may remain unpopular for policy makers, potentially putting greenhouse mitigation targets at risk of being missed. © 2020 The Authors
关键词	Disruption Heat Perception Policy Transformation Uncertainty
英文关键词	Fossil fuels; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Risk perception; Adaptive approach; Decarbonisation; External influences; Fossil fuel combustion; Greenhouse mitigations; Knock-on effect; Qualitative analysis; Technological pathways; Decarbonization; emission control; environmental economics; fossil fuel; governance approach; greenhouse gas; heat production; perception; policy approach; policy making; targeting; uncertainty analysis; United Kingdom
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/204760
作者单位	University of Exeter Energy Policy Group, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lowes R.,Woodman B.. Disruptive and uncertain: Policy makers’ perceptions on UK heat decarbonisation[J],2020,142.
APA	Lowes R.,&Woodman B..(2020).Disruptive and uncertain: Policy makers’ perceptions on UK heat decarbonisation.Energy Policy,142.
MLA	Lowes R.,et al."Disruptive and uncertain: Policy makers’ perceptions on UK heat decarbonisation".Energy Policy 142(2020).