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Abstract:
Paula Kivimaa will be presenting the contents of her new book “Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions” published by Cambridge University Press in November 2024. By providing a new qualitative analysis of policy coherence and integration between energy, security, and defence policies between 2006 and 2023, this book analyzes the impacts of policy interplay on energy transition through the lens of sustainability transitions research, security studies, energy security and geopolitics, and policy studies. The security aspects discussed range from national defence and geopolitics, to questions of energy security, positive security, and just transitions. Findings show that the policy interface around the energy-security nexus has often been incoherent. There is a lack of integration between security aspects, leading to ineffective policies from the perspective of decarbonisation and national security, which is evident in the European energy crisis following the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Bio:
Paula Kivimaa is Research Professor in Climate and Society in the Finnish Environment Institute and Associate at SPRU, University of Sussex. She worked as Senior Research Fellow at SPRU during 2015-2021. She is an internationally renowned scholar in sustainability transitions and previous co-editor of a book Innovating Climate Governance. Kivimaa is also a member of the Finnish Climate Change Panel, a member of the Expert Group on Fair and Sustainable Economy of JRC/European Commissions, and an advisor to DG GROW/European Commission.
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