In “The Evolution of ‘Phase-out’ as a Bridging Concept for Sustainability”, Florentine Koppenborg and co-authors review and map out the scientific discourse on phase-out since 1970. They find that the focus of phase-out has shifted from toxic pollution to climate change, and that the scope of phase-out targets has broadened.
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In Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance, Florentine Koppenborg argues that the regulatory reforms taken up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, directly and indirectly raised the costs of nuclear power in Japan.
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In “More Weapons than Windmills” (Czech Journal of International Relations) Ulv Hanssen and Florentine Koppenborg compare Japan’s military and energy policy response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It finds that the war in Ukraine spurred dramatic policy changes in Japan’s defense policy, but only moderate ones in Japan’s green energy transition…
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Florentine Koppenborg was invited to give a book talk about “Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance” at Temple University in Tokyo, Japan, where she presented her findings about how nuclear safety governance reforms after the Fukushima nuclear accident impacted Japan’s nuclear restart politics. Recording available on…
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Theresa Jedd gave an invited talk on U.S. politics and the energy transition on as part of the micro-module Energy Innovation Across the Globe hosted by the University of Stavanger, which is part of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU). Her talk provided insight into partisan politics in the federalist context.
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