Rainer Quitzow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1746409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rainer Quitzow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Quitzow |
| SIGNATURE | QUITZOW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8358-7713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains
Fertilizers are essential for agricultural production and vital to global food security. Nevertheless, the production and use of fertilizers, primarily the nitrogen type, contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, fertilizer markets are closely intertwined with a changing geopolitical landscape and disruptions induced by the war in Ukraine. Despite a growing number of studies that have explored these various dimension…
From External Governance to Energy Diplomacy: The European Pursuit of Green Hydrogen
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and its Member States are faced with the double imperative of ensuring energy security whilst reaching decarbonisation goals. A number of authors have suggested that we are observing a geopolitical Commission that is shifting to more active ‘energy diplomacy’, as opposed to its traditional ‘external energy governance’ based on the EU's liberal and regulatory roots. However, this m…
Developing China's Hydrogen Economy: National Regulation Through Local Experimentation
Hydrogen is playing an increasingly important role in China's energy and climate policy, with significant implications for the development of a global hydrogen industry. However, China's approach to the regulation of hydrogen, and, in particular, the role of local authorities in promoting hydrogen refuelling stations and fuel cell vehicles, has so far received limited scholarly attention. This article aims to contribute to the literature on hydro…
Catalytic Power Europe: Blended Finance in European External Action
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
The crisis in Ukraine: Another missed opportunity for building a more sustainable economic paradigm
Economic disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine provide insights into how climate change may threaten global supply chains in a not-so-distant future. The EU is addressing strategic vulnerabilities, particularly in the sphere of fossil fuel supply, while seeking to maintain its climate ambition. However, the EU has failed to make more far-reaching changes to its economic model and relations with international partners. These are urgently needed…
The Covid-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition
In this article, we review the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy sector and evaluate the implications of related policy responses on prospects for a transition to a climate-friendly energy system. In doing so, we differentiate between different types of countries and different dimensions of energy supply. Firstly, we assess the impacts on leaders and laggards in the transformation of the power sector, in terms of renewabl…
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
Transforming or tinkering at the margins? Assessing policy strategies for heating decarbonisation in Germany and the United Kingdom
The German energy transition as soft power
Germany represents a new and unconventional actor in the field of energy foreign policy. Based on its reputation as an energy transition frontrunner, it is pursuing a soft power strategy aimed at promoting its Energiewende policy approach abroad. Germany’s bilateral energy partnerships, this paper argues, represent the government’s central policy instrument for this purpose. After a discussion of the German energy transition as a soft power resou…
The role of the policy mix in the transition toward a circular forest bioeconomy
Entscheidungshilfe: Transdisziplinäre Forschung trägt zum Gelingen der Energiewende bei
Das Kopernikus-Projekt Energiewende-Navigationssystem (ENavi) will robustes Wissen für die Entscheidungsfindung im Rahmen der Energie wende bereitstellen. Damit dies gelingt, erarbeitet das ENavi -Team Politikvorschläge, indem es interdisziplinäres Systemwissen in einem transdisziplinären Bewertungsprozess mit dem Praxiswissen von Akteuren aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft zusammenführt
Comparing policy strategies for a transition to a bioeconomy in Europe: The case of Italy and Germany
Dynamics of a policy-driven market: The co-evolution of technological innovation systems for solar photovoltaics in China and Germany
The concept of “lead markets” revisited: Contribution to environmental innovation theory
Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness
This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related literature on the relationship between environmental policy and competitiveness. It concludes that this literature has significant limitations and, therefore, proposes an alternative approach to tackling this question. It begins by revi…
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien in Politik und Wirtschaft; Treiber für Innovation und Kooperation?
Dynamics of a policy-driven market: The co-evolution of technological innovation systems for solar photovoltaics in China and Germany
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
The concept of “lead markets” revisited: Contribution to environmental innovation theory
The role of the policy mix in the transition toward a circular forest bioeconomy
Catalytic Power Europe: Blended Finance in European External Action
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
The German energy transition as soft power
Germany represents a new and unconventional actor in the field of energy foreign policy. Based on its reputation as an energy transition frontrunner, it is pursuing a soft power strategy aimed at promoting its Energiewende policy approach abroad. Germany’s bilateral energy partnerships, this paper argues, represent the government’s central policy instrument for this purpose. After a discussion of the German energy transition as a soft power resou…
Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness
This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related literature on the relationship between environmental policy and competitiveness. It concludes that this literature has significant limitations and, therefore, proposes an alternative approach to tackling this question. It begins by revi…
Transforming or tinkering at the margins? Assessing policy strategies for heating decarbonisation in Germany and the United Kingdom
Comparing policy strategies for a transition to a bioeconomy in Europe: The case of Italy and Germany
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien in Politik und Wirtschaft; Treiber für Innovation und Kooperation?
Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness
This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related literature on the relationship between environmental policy and competitiveness. It concludes that this literature has significant limitations and, therefore, proposes an alternative approach to tackling this question. It begins by revi…
The concept of “lead markets” revisited: Contribution to environmental innovation theory
Dynamics of a policy-driven market: The co-evolution of technological innovation systems for solar photovoltaics in China and Germany
Entscheidungshilfe: Transdisziplinäre Forschung trägt zum Gelingen der Energiewende bei
Das Kopernikus-Projekt Energiewende-Navigationssystem (ENavi) will robustes Wissen für die Entscheidungsfindung im Rahmen der Energie wende bereitstellen. Damit dies gelingt, erarbeitet das ENavi -Team Politikvorschläge, indem es interdisziplinäres Systemwissen in einem transdisziplinären Bewertungsprozess mit dem Praxiswissen von Akteuren aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft zusammenführt
Comparing policy strategies for a transition to a bioeconomy in Europe: The case of Italy and Germany
The role of the policy mix in the transition toward a circular forest bioeconomy
Transforming or tinkering at the margins? Assessing policy strategies for heating decarbonisation in Germany and the United Kingdom
The German energy transition as soft power
Germany represents a new and unconventional actor in the field of energy foreign policy. Based on its reputation as an energy transition frontrunner, it is pursuing a soft power strategy aimed at promoting its Energiewende policy approach abroad. Germany’s bilateral energy partnerships, this paper argues, represent the government’s central policy instrument for this purpose. After a discussion of the German energy transition as a soft power resou…
The Covid-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition
In this article, we review the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy sector and evaluate the implications of related policy responses on prospects for a transition to a climate-friendly energy system. In doing so, we differentiate between different types of countries and different dimensions of energy supply. Firstly, we assess the impacts on leaders and laggards in the transformation of the power sector, in terms of renewabl…
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance
The regulatory state has provided a useful framework for conceptualizing the nature of the EU and its role in policy making. Although it is widely accepted that the conditions of European integration have dramatically changed since the 1990s, when this approach was formulated, few scholars have sought to theorize the EU ‘beyond’ the regulatory state. To fill this gap, this article puts forward the concept of the catalytic state, tracing its emerg…
The crisis in Ukraine: Another missed opportunity for building a more sustainable economic paradigm
Economic disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine provide insights into how climate change may threaten global supply chains in a not-so-distant future. The EU is addressing strategic vulnerabilities, particularly in the sphere of fossil fuel supply, while seeking to maintain its climate ambition. However, the EU has failed to make more far-reaching changes to its economic model and relations with international partners. These are urgently needed…
Catalytic Power Europe: Blended Finance in European External Action
The global influence of the European Union (EU) has been debated in overlapping strands of literature as ‘normative’, ‘regulatory’ and ‘market power’. They identify the diffusion of its rules and standards as a vehicle of European power. We argue that European power extends beyond its regulatory capacities and includes new ‘catalytic’ capacities in the realm of financing and network building. We analyse blended finance as an instrument of ‘cataly…
Developing China's Hydrogen Economy: National Regulation Through Local Experimentation
Hydrogen is playing an increasingly important role in China's energy and climate policy, with significant implications for the development of a global hydrogen industry. However, China's approach to the regulation of hydrogen, and, in particular, the role of local authorities in promoting hydrogen refuelling stations and fuel cell vehicles, has so far received limited scholarly attention. This article aims to contribute to the literature on hydro…
The nexus of geopolitics, decarbonization, and food security gives rise to distinct challenges across fertilizer supply chains
Fertilizers are essential for agricultural production and vital to global food security. Nevertheless, the production and use of fertilizers, primarily the nitrogen type, contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, fertilizer markets are closely intertwined with a changing geopolitical landscape and disruptions induced by the war in Ukraine. Despite a growing number of studies that have explored these various dimension…
From External Governance to Energy Diplomacy: The European Pursuit of Green Hydrogen
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and its Member States are faced with the double imperative of ensuring energy security whilst reaching decarbonisation goals. A number of authors have suggested that we are observing a geopolitical Commission that is shifting to more active ‘energy diplomacy’, as opposed to its traditional ‘external energy governance’ based on the EU's liberal and regulatory roots. However, this m…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Economic system (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Innovation, Technology, and Society (4 works) · Renewable energy (4 works) · China (3 works) · Climate change (3 works)