The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Leopold, Franziska; Blum, Bianca; Schroeder, Dominik
• 署名单位: University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983; 1748-5991
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12651
• 发表日期: 2026-04
• 页码: 391-406
• 关键词: Cross-border cooperation; political decision-makers; public choice; Social sustainability; sustainable energy markets; PERSPECTIVE; acceptance; ECONOMY; german; POLICY; POWER

摘要

Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine in Germany, France, and Switzerland. Following a description of the status-quo in each country, a public choice analysis is used to identify the key actors in the political decision-making process to determine the extent to which they facilitate or impede the energy-transition and cross-border cooperation, as well as group-specific socio-environmental-conflicts. Based on the identified conflicts, eco-social-policy recommendations are derived that can also enhance trinational cooperation.