Implementing Climate Change Measures in the EU - Key Success Factors

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Introduction

1.1 Research Question

1.2 Scope

1.3 Goals

1.4 Implications for the Structure of Analysis

1.5 Plan of the Book

Status of Implementation: Analyses and Insights

The Problem at the Outset: Lingering Implementation Issues

2.1 Transposition of Directives

2.2 Infringements

2.3 Conclusion

Help Needed: (Im)practical Solutions and Research Gaps

3.1 Solution Patterns

3.2 EU Initiatives For Improvement of Transposi-tion

3.3 German Initiatives for Improvement

3.4 Research on Success Factors of Implementation

3.5 Conclusion

Setting Up Research: Complications

4.1 Status of Implementation Research

4.2 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Debate

4.3 Implications for Methodology

4.4 Implications For The Level of Analysis

4.5 Implications for the Definition of Implementa-tion

4.6 Implications for Scope

4.7 Bias

4.8 Conclusion

A Model of the Design Phase

An Alternative Approach: LeibnizSystem

5.1 Logic-Based Intelligent Systems

5.2 LeibnizSystem Explained

5.3 Conclusion

Setup of the Model

6.1 Variables of the Design Phase

6.2 Assumptions

6.3 Conclusion

The Model

7.1 Scenarios

7.2 Scenario Results

7.3 Conclusion

Interpretation of Results

8.1 Variables

8.2 Clauses

8.3 Conclusion

Comparing Results to Regression Results

9.1 Regression: Why or Why Not

9.2 Choosing the Appropriate Regression

9.3 Regression on Scenarios

9.4 Tests Applied to the Model

9.5 Regression Results

9.6 Comparison of Accuracy

9.7 Conclusion

Factors of the Implementation Process: Survey and Interviews

EU Survey Setup

10.1 Taxonomy of Instruments

10.2 EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) and EU Survey

10.3 Survey Design

10.4 Conclusion

Survey Results

11.1 Overall Results

11.2 Results: Groups

11.3 Results: Regions

11.4 Results: Members

11.5 Results: States

11.6 Conclusion

Additional Insights From the Survey

12.1 Results for Governments

12.2 Participants’ Verbal Feedback

12.3 Conclusion

Preparation of Interviews

13.1 Preparations

13.2 Selection of Directives and Interviewees

13.3 Conclusion

Interview Results

14.1 Appraisal of Issue Tree

14.2 Hypotheses

14.3 Conclusion

A Model of Implementation

Model Parameters

15.1 A Process of Implementation?

15.2 Actors and Behavioral Assumptions

15.3 Constraints of Action - Institutions and Orga-nizations

15.4 Driving Forces

15.5 Compatibility with Existing Models

15.6 Conclusion

The Implementation Model

16.1 A New Model

16.2 The Process

16.3 Determinants

16.4 Actors

16.5 Behavior

16.6 Model Results

16.7 Conclusion

Conclusion

17.1 Goals

17.2 Factors

17.3 Models

17.4 Further Research

Bibliography