Cairney, Paul; Fischer, Manuel; Ingold, Karin (2016). Hydraulic Fracturing Policy in the United Kingdom: Coalition, Cooperation, and Opposition in the Face of Uncertainty. In: Weible, Christopher M.; Heikkila, Tanya; Fischer, Manuel (eds.) Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing (pp. 81-113). New York: Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_4
Full text not available from this repository.The UK government seems to be ‘all out for shale’, but the regulatory process is ongoing, and there remain many hurdles to pass before shale gas can be developed commercially. We try to understand the intermediate policy outcome by identifying advocacy coalitions and explaining how they share information. We identify a large, tentatively pro-exploration coalition, and a small anti-exploration coalition. The former argues that, if regulated well, drilling for shale gas is a low-risk, potentially high-return industry; the latter relies on the ‘precautionary principle’ to identify an issue with unclear risks and potentially catastrophic environmental consequences. The process has produced a UK government policy in favour of hydraulic fracturing, but it is still unclear how devolved and local actors will influence the process.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) 03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science 10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Fischer, Manuel (B), Ingold, Karin Mirjam |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science |
ISBN: |
978-1-137-60376-0 |
Publisher: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Fadri Crameri |
Date Deposited: |
05 Jan 2017 16:08 |
Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2023 23:35 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_4 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/91964 |
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