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Andreas Goldthau

Andreas Goldthau

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Political Science

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36
Citations
5569
World Ranking
704
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33

Overview

Andreas Goldthau is an academic affiliated with the University of Erfurt in Germany, specializing in research related to energy, environmental science, and economics. Their research output spans several fields, with a notable focus on global energy security, sustainability, and the socio-economic dimensions of energy transitions.

The main fields of study for Andreas Goldthau include:

  • Energy
  • Environmental Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their work also covers several subfields, particularly:

  • General Energy
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Key topics in Andreas Goldthau's research include:

  • Global Energy Security and Policy
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles, demonstrating engagement with pressing issues in energy policy and sustainability. Key recent publications are:

  • "Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions" (2020), published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Protect global supply chains for low-carbon technologies" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future" (2020), published in Social Studies of Science
  • "An energy justice index for the energy transition in the global South" (2023), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Andreas Goldthau frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Nature
  • Social Studies of Science
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Energy Policy

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with several co-authors, including:

  • Laima Eicke
  • Silvia Weko
  • Esther Schuch
  • Jude Herijadi Kurniawan
  • Llewelyn Hughes

Best Publications

  • Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley;Andreas Goldthau;Andreas Goldthau

  • Rethinking the governance of energy infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism

    Andreas Goldthau;Andreas Goldthau

  • The uniqueness of the energy security, justice, and governance problem☆

    Andreas Goldthau;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions

    Caroline Kuzemko;Michael J. Bradshaw;Gavin Bridge;Andreas Goldthau

  • Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game

    Andreas Goldthau;Jan Martin Witte

  • Governing Global Energy: Systems, Transitions, Complexity

    Aleh Cherp;Jessica Jewell;Andreas Goldthau

  • Back to the future or forward to the past? Strengthening markets and rules for effective global energy governance

    Andreas Goldthau;Jan Martin Witte

  • Soft power with a hard edge: EU policy tools and energy security

    Andreas Goldthau;Nick Sitter

  • Rhetoric versus reality: Russian threats to European energy supply

    Andreas Goldthau

  • A liberal actor in a realist world? The Commission and the external dimension of the single market for energy

    Andreas Goldthau;Nick Sitter

  • Energy and security

    Aleh Cherp;Adeola Adenikinju;Andreas Goldthau;Francisco Hernandez

  • A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy

    Andreas Goldthau;Nick Sitter

  • The handbook of global energy policy

    Andreas Goldthau

  • From the State to the Market and Back: Policy Implications of Changing Energy Paradigms

    Andreas Goldthau

  • A Public Policy Perspective on Global Energy Security

    Andreas Goldthau

  • The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security

    Caroline Kuzemko;Michael F. Keating;Andreas Goldthau

  • Model and manage the changing geopolitics of energy

    Andreas Goldthau;Kirsten Westphal;Morgan Bazilian;Michael Bradshaw

  • The 2014 Ukraine-Russia crisis: Implications for energy markets and scholarship

    Andreas Goldthau;Tim Boersma

  • Protect global supply chains for low-carbon technologies.

    Andreas Goldthau;Llewelyn Hughes

  • Dynamics of energy governance in Europe and Russia

    Caroline Kuzemko;Andrei V. Belyi;Andreas Goldthau;Michael F. Keating

  • Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future.

    Benjamin K Sovacool;Benjamin K Sovacool;Noam Bergman;Debbie Hopkins;Kirsten Eh Jenkins

  • Four scenarios of the energy transition : drivers, consequences, and implications for geopolitics

    Morgan Bazilian;Michael J. Bradshaw;Johannes Gabriel;Andreas Goldthau

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Morgan Bazilian
Morgan Bazilian Colorado School of Mines
Gavin Bridge
Gavin Bridge Durham University
Raphael J. Heffron
Raphael J. Heffron Abu Dhabi University
Thijs Van de Graaf
Thijs Van de Graaf Ghent University

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