Print Email Facebook Twitter Policy preferences and the diversity of instrument choice for mitigating climate change impacts in the transport sector Title Policy preferences and the diversity of instrument choice for mitigating climate change impacts in the transport sector Author Stead, D. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy) Date 2017 Abstract Different policy approaches and responses to common environmental challenges, such as climate change, exist between countries, and sometimes even within countries. This situation arises because public policy-makers are not only driven by concerns of theoretical purity but are also influenced by a range of social, political, economic, cultural and administrative matters when selecting techniques or instruments to achieve specific policy goals. This article examines whether the diversity of stated policy instruments to tackle climate change mitigation in the transport sector can be explained according to national policy preferences in a European context. It also investigates whether the mix of national climate change policy instruments for transport exhibits temporal stability, even after national changes in political power. To do so, the article reviews a series of national policy documents that address climate change in the transport sector in four European countries with contrasting administrative traditions – France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Subject policy instrumentsclimate changemitigationtransportEurope To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cee6e939-dd5e-4b3f-9668-b3b15ced9ac3 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1397505 ISSN 0964-0568 Source Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (online), 61 (2018) (14), 2445-2467 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 D. Stead Files PDF Policy_preferences_and_th ... sector.pdf 660.98 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:cee6e939-dd5e-4b3f-9668-b3b15ced9ac3/datastream/OBJ/view