@article{ElsaesserHickmannStehle2018,
  author    = {Els{\"a}sser, Joshua Philipp and Hickmann, Thomas and Stehle, Fee},
  title     = {The Role of Cities in South Africa's Energy Gridlock},
  series = {Case Studies in the Environment},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Case Studies in the Environment},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {University of California Press},
  address   = {Oakland},
  issn      = {2473-9510},
  doi       = {10.1525/cse.2018.001297},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {South Africa's energy sector finds itself in a gridlock situation. The sector is controlled by the state-owned utility Eskom holding the monopoly on the generation and transmission of electricity, which is almost exclusively produced from domestically extracted coal. At the same time, the constitutional mandate enables municipalities to distribute and sell electricity generated by Eskom to local consumers, which constitutes a large part of the cities' municipal income. This is a strong disincentive for city governments to promote reductions in energy consumption and substantially limits the scope for urban action on energy efficiency and renewable energies. In the present case study, we portray the current development in South Africa's energy policy and trace how deadlocked legal, financial, and institutional barriers block the transition from a coal-based energy system toward a greener and more sustainable energy economy. We furthermore point to the efforts of major South African cities to introduce low-carbon strategies in their jurisdictions and highlight key challenges for the future development of the country's energy sector. By engaging with this case study, readers will become familiar with a prime example of the wider phenomenon of national political-economic obstacles to the progress in sustainable urban development.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HoehneFuhrHickmannetal.2018,
  author    = {H{\"o}hne, Chris and Fuhr, Harald and Hickmann, Thomas and Lederer, Markus and Stehle, Fee},
  title     = {REDD plus and the reconfiguration of public authority in the forest sector},
  series = {Global Forest Governance and Climate Change},
  journal   = {Global Forest Governance and Climate Change},
  editor    = {Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.},
  publisher = {Palgrave},
  address   = {Basingstoke},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-71946-7},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-71946-7_8},
  pages     = {203 -- 241},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Since the 1980s, central governments have decentralized forestry to local governments in many countries of the Global South. More recently, REDD+ has started to impact forest policy-making in these countries by providing incentives to ensure a national-level approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. H{\"o}hne et al. analyze to what extent central governments have rebuilt capacity at the national level, imposed regulations from above, and interfered in forest management by local governments for advancing REDD+. Using the examples of Brazil and Indonesia, the chapter illustrates that while REDD+ has not initiated a large-scale recentralization in the forestry sector, it has supported the reinforcement and pooling of REDD+ related competences at the central government level.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{HoehneFuhrHickmannetal.2018,
  author    = {H{\"o}hne, Chris and Fuhr, Harald and Hickmann, Thomas and Lederer, Markus and Stehle, Fee},
  title     = {REDD+ and the reconfiguration of public authority in the forest sector},
  series = {Global Forest Governance and Climate Change},
  booktitle = {Global Forest Governance and Climate Change},
  editor    = {Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-71945-0},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {203 -- 241},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{HickmannLederer2018,
  author    = {Hickmann, Thomas and Lederer, Markus},
  title     = {Global political economy and development},
  series = {Global Environmental Politics},
  booktitle = {Global Environmental Politics},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {978-1-351-71664-2},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {47 -- 56},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}