Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas

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Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland, the largest post-socialist EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change. Drawing on data from five different research projects and two hundred interviews, Lis reflects on how EU accession forced Poland to mobilize their resources and produce expertise on carbon dioxide and shale gas, in order to actively participate in the debates around EU climate change ambitions and goals. A significant lack of capacity and expert institutions made it difficult for Poland to quickly assess the impacts of EU legislation or to propose new solutions for itself, and it is precisely this struggle for knowledge production that will be examined during the course of the book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy and resource politics, climate change, EU environmental policy and CEE studies more broadly. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Energy objects and co-production of scales EU accession and the de-Orientalization of expertise Roadmap of the book Chapter 1 – New energy objects and the (de-)Orientalization of Poland Chapter 2 – Production of expertise, scaling and carbon dioxide in Poland Chapter 3 – Production of expertise, scaling and shale gas in Poland Chapter 4 – Co-production of sociopolitical orders: energy objects, publics and states Conclusion: CEE countries and the challenge of knowledge production References 1 New energy objects and the (de-)Orientalization of Poland Introduction Making carbon dioxide into an object of energy politics: the pre-accession years Making carbon dioxide into an object of energy politics: post-accession EU years Making shale gas into an object of energy politics Conclusions Note References 2 Production of expertise, scaling and carbon dioxide in Poland Introduction Europeanization of carbon dioxide emissions Carbon dioxide emissions from Polish Coal and Russian Gas Carbon dioxide, capital and the Polish state EU Summits, carbon dioxide and a European scale for climate action Conclusions References 3 Production of expertise, scaling and shale gas in Poland Introduction Producing expertise on shale gas as a resource: the state–nature–capital nexus Environmental valuation of shale gas in the EU Scaling up Polish expertise on shale gas: from seven local studies to the EU-level expertise Conclusions Notes References 4 Co-production of sociopolitical orders: Energy objects, publics and states Introduction Carbon dioxide and the scalar politics of European labour Shale gas politics and new terrains for state–citizen relations Conclusions Notes References Conclusion: CEE countries and the challenge of knowledge production References Index