Governance barriers to sustainable energy transitions – Assessing Ireland's capacity towards marine energy futures

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dc.contributor.authorLange, Marcus
dc.contributor.authorO'Hagan, Anne Marie
dc.contributor.authorDevoy, Robert R. N.
dc.contributor.authorLe Tissier, Martin
dc.contributor.authorCummins, Valerie
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Ireland
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T13:36:30Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T13:36:30Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractMarine energies (ME), including offshore hydcrocarbons along with marine renewable energies (MRE), such as offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, are increasingly important in the future energy mix of many nations. We observe that ME governance is complex, as development offshore involves engagement and may often result in conflict. This paper examines the Irish case, where offshore gas and oil remain relatively undeveloped, and yet have provoked extensive controversy. Moreover, Ireland exhibits very ambitious plans for MRE developments. Against a background, where ME development seems to have stalled, the objective of the paper is to analyse the Irish governance setup and its capacity to deliver ME and whether the current system is equipped to enable transition to MREs. Current governance systems lack efficacy in terms of policy integration and enforcement, government oversight, and public trust due to past failures. Although, management approaches have been developed to address some of the barriers, domains such as policy/regulation, industry development and public engagement are disconnected. Results: presented may not simply be generalised, as each country context is different. An analysis of examples with similar issues must focus on studying the context of the governance setup and balances of power across domains.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationLange, M., O'Hagan, A. M., Devoy, R. R. N., Le Tissier, M. and Cummins, V. (2018) 'Governance barriers to sustainable energy transitions – Assessing Ireland's capacity towards marine energy futures', Energy Policy, 113, pp. 623-632. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.020en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.020
dc.identifier.endpage632
dc.identifier.issn0301-4215
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnergy Policyen
dc.identifier.startpage623
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5408
dc.identifier.volume113
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltden
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2302/IE/Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) - The SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Research/
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421517307668
dc.rights© 2017, the authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.subjectEnergy transitionen
dc.subjectMarine renewable energyen
dc.subjectPublic engagementen
dc.titleGovernance barriers to sustainable energy transitions – Assessing Ireland's capacity towards marine energy futuresen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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