Participative environmental policy integration in the Irish energy sector

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dc.contributor.authorMullally, Gerard
dc.contributor.authorDunphy, Niall P.
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Paul
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-26T13:50:29Z
dc.date.available2018-03-26T13:50:29Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-24
dc.date.updated2018-03-26T13:19:42Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the implications of participation for Environmental Policy Integration (EPI), through the window of Irish energy policy, employing concepts of ‘energy democracy’ and ‘energy citizenship’. Our analysis of a consultation process on energy policy identifies distinctive narratives, with different idealisations of energy citizens. We distil the implications of consequent, emergent institutional innovations examining imagined citizens, communication, participation and decision-making linked to policy. We adapt and operationalise the analytical framework of discursive institutionalism (Schmidt, 2008), using explanatory factors for EPI (Runhaar et al., 2017). Relocating the specific consultation in the wider process preceding and following its outcomes we examine the degree, and conditions under which participation advances EPI in the sector. We suggest that energy citizenship constructs and processes of energy democratisation remain highly contingent on context. Nevertheless, ‘principled priority’ (Lafferty and Hovden, 2003) though often involving trade-offs in practice, ought not be decoupled from processes of democratisation that may underpin its sustainability.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMullally, G., Dunphy, N. and O’Connor, P. (2018) 'Participative environmental policy integration in the Irish energy sector', Environmental Science & Policy, 83, pp. 71-78. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.02.007en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.envsci.2018.02.007
dc.identifier.endpage78en
dc.identifier.issn1462-9011
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnvironmental Science and Policyen
dc.identifier.startpage71en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5694
dc.identifier.volume83en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::RIA/657998/EU/Energy System Transition Through Stakeholder Activation, Education and Skills Development/ENTRUSTen
dc.rights© 2018 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/en
dc.subjectEPIen
dc.subjectEnergy democracyen
dc.subjectEnergy citizenshipen
dc.subjectEnergy transitionen
dc.subjectParticipative EPIen
dc.subjectEnvironmental Policy Integrationen
dc.titleParticipative environmental policy integration in the Irish energy sectoren
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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