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The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform

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Fossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform, and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of political science, international relations, law, public policy, and environmental studies. This title is also available as Open Access.

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338.23 POL p

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press., 2018

Collation

xxiii, 324p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781108241946

Classification

338.23

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Subject(s)

Fossil fuels--Government policy
Energy policy--Economic aspects

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edited by Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt

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