Spotlight on
This new series' aim is to promote our member's work. We help organise and host (online) the book launch events for UACES members' recently published books.
If you are a UACES member and would like us to run a Spotlight event based on your recently published book, get in contact at [email protected].
Spotlight On: Economic Aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe (Book Launch)
A book launch where author Dr Rosa Maria Fernandez Martin presented her new book Economic Aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe in discussion with Professor Gabriel Siles-Brugge, University of Bristol and Michael Nicholson, Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the resources dedicated by the EU towards the transition to a more sustainable future. It does so through a review of the different instruments, policies and actors involved in environmental and sustainability initiatives across time, while scrutinising the potential for success of the more recent initiatives, such as climate bonds or the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. The European Green Deal is used as contextualisation framework, with a final aim at responding two main questions: Who pays (and how) for the necessary changes towards a more sustainable future? And, given the EU's self-proclaimed leadership on environmental and climate commitments - Do its actions concur with a weak or strong sustainability approach?
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UACES Spotlight on: Ideas and European Education Policy, 1973-2020
For the first event of the UACES Spotlight on series, we invited Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello (King’s College London) to launch her book 'Ideas and European Education Policy, 1973-2020: Constructing the Europe of Knowledge?' with discussant Prof Michelle Cini (University of Bristol). The event was chaired by Prof Simon Usherwood (Open University).
Spotlight on: The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance
A book launch where author Dr Jonas J. Schoenefeld presented his new book The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance in discussion with Dr Viviane Gravey (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Paul Tobin (University of Manchester).
Polycentric climate governance holds enormous promise, but to unleash its full force, policy evaluation needs a stronger role in it. This book develops Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's important work by offering fresh perspectives from cutting-edge thinking on climate governance and policy evaluation. Driven by theoretical innovation and empirical exploration, this book not only argues for a stronger connection between polycentric climate governance and practices of evaluation, but also demonstrates the key value of doing so with a real-world, empirical test in the polycentric setting of the European Union. This book offers a crucial step to take climate governance to the next level. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in climate governance, as well as practitioners who seek to enhance climate action, which is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe and to identify a pathway towards the 1.5° Celsius target in the Paris Agreement.
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Spotlight On: Making the European Green Deal Work - EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad
A book launch where editors Dr Helene Dyrhauge, professor in the Department for Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark and Dr Kristina Kurze, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Göttingen & Associate Professor at Andrássy University Budapest presented their new book 'Making the European Green Deal Work - EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad' with discussant Dr Tomas Maltby, Reader in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London.
This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal actions and external relations and highlighting the EU’s diverging powers and capabilities in achieving the core objectives. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of EU sustainability policies, sustainability transitions and green economy, environmental studies, energy policy, energy governance and climate change, public policy, comparative politics and international relations.
Disclaimer: The transcription in this video has been generated using automated speech recognition technology. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, errors may occur due to audio quality, accents and dialects, inaudible speech, technical limitations and homophones.
For the first event of the UACES Spotlight on series, we invited Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello (King’s College London) to launch her book 'Ideas and European Education Policy, 1973-2020: Constructing the Europe of Knowledge?' with discussant Prof Michelle Cini (University of Bristol). The event was chaired by Prof Simon Usherwood (Open University).