Hugo Faber
Biographic Data
| ID | 6300355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugo Faber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugo |
| FAMILY NAME | Faber |
| SIGNATURE | FABER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5065-3646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the grip of a dying giant
Estonia has responded to energy security concerns related to a hostile Russia by supporting uncompetitive oil shale power plants located no more than 2 km from the Russian border. How did this policy come to appear as necessary and legitimate, and what can this tell us about the politics of phasing out fossil fuels in our time of geopolitical instability? This article uses discursive policy analysis to analyze 21 interviews with key Estonian expe…
Free competition, come hell or high water? How neoliberalism prevailed and why Finland allowed peat to decline in the midst of an energy crisis
Can advocates of fossil energy technologies in decline invoke energy security to influence energy politics? This article investigates how supporters of Finland's declining peat industry failed to do so, despite a window of opportunity presented by an energy crisis, Finland's dependency on imported Russian energy, and the abrupt end of these imports following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. By focusing on a case where invoking energy security has fa…
Thijs Van de Graaf and Benjamin K. Sovacool
Legitimacy under institutional complexity
The legitimacy of international institutions has in recent years received growing interest from scholars, yet analyses of stakeholder perceptions of the legitimacy of institutions that coexist within a governance field have been few in number. Motivated by the proliferation of institutions in the field of global climate and energy governance, this study maps stakeholder perceptions of legitimate institutions and their sources of legitimacy in glo…
Free competition, come hell or high water? How neoliberalism prevailed and why Finland allowed peat to decline in the midst of an energy crisis
Can advocates of fossil energy technologies in decline invoke energy security to influence energy politics? This article investigates how supporters of Finland's declining peat industry failed to do so, despite a window of opportunity presented by an energy crisis, Finland's dependency on imported Russian energy, and the abrupt end of these imports following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. By focusing on a case where invoking energy security has fa…
Thijs Van de Graaf and Benjamin K. Sovacool
Legitimacy under institutional complexity
The legitimacy of international institutions has in recent years received growing interest from scholars, yet analyses of stakeholder perceptions of the legitimacy of institutions that coexist within a governance field have been few in number. Motivated by the proliferation of institutions in the field of global climate and energy governance, this study maps stakeholder perceptions of legitimate institutions and their sources of legitimacy in glo…
Free competition, come hell or high water? How neoliberalism prevailed and why Finland allowed peat to decline in the midst of an energy crisis
Can advocates of fossil energy technologies in decline invoke energy security to influence energy politics? This article investigates how supporters of Finland's declining peat industry failed to do so, despite a window of opportunity presented by an energy crisis, Finland's dependency on imported Russian energy, and the abrupt end of these imports following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. By focusing on a case where invoking energy security has fa…
In the grip of a dying giant
Estonia has responded to energy security concerns related to a hostile Russia by supporting uncompetitive oil shale power plants located no more than 2 km from the Russian border. How did this policy come to appear as necessary and legitimate, and what can this tell us about the politics of phasing out fossil fuels in our time of geopolitical instability? This article uses discursive policy analysis to analyze 21 interviews with key Estonian expe…
Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 works) · Global Energy Security and Policy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Neoliberalism (international relations (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (1 work) · Biology (1 work)