Durable by Design? Policy Feedback in a Changing Climate

Following the landmark Paris agreement, policy makers are under pressure to adopt policies that rapidly deliver deep, society-wide decarbonisation. Deep decarbonisation requires more durable policies, but not enough is known about if and how they actually emerge. This book provides the first systematic analysis of the determinants of policy durability in three high-profile areas: biofuel production, car transport, and industrial emissions. It breaks new ground by exploring how key European Union climate policies have shaped their own durability and their ability to stimulate supportive political dynamics in society. It combines state-of-the-art policy theories with empirical accounts of landmark political events such as 'Dieselgate' and the campaign against 'dirty' biofuels, to offer a fresh understanding of how and why policy makers set about packaging together different elements of policy. By shining new light on an important area of contemporary policy making, it reveals a rich agenda for academic researchers and policy makers.

Part I – Policy Durability; 1. The Quest for Durability: When, Where and How Do Policies Feed Back into Politics?; 2. Designing Durable Policies: An Instruments Perspective; Part II – Designing Policy Durability; 3. Designing Climate Policy in the European Union; 4. Climate Policy Designs: Contexts, Choices, Settings and Sequences; 5. Regulation: The Governance of Biofuels; 6. Emissions Trading: The Governance of Large Stationary Emitters; 7. Voluntary Action: The Governance of Car Emissions; Part III – Climate Policy: Durable by Design?; 8. Climate Policy Feedbacks: Significant Mechanisms, Effects and Directions; 9. Durable by Design? Policy Making in a Changing Climate; References; Bibliography; Index.

Andrew Jordan is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia. He has published extensively on European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) environmental policy and politics, and provided expert advice to both EU and UK institutions. He is a Director of the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre on Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), and a Co-Chair of the ESRC-funded Brexit & Environment network. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Brendan Moore is Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia. His research focuses on EU climate change policy, the politics of emissions trading, and the impact of Brexit on UK and EU environmental governance. He is the network coordinator of the Brexit & Environment network, a group of scholars providing independent research on how Brexit is affecting policy, governance, and the environment