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    Examining the Impact of Regional Wildfires on Environmental Concern and Support for Carbon Tax- Empirical Findings from Sweden
    (2023-06-29) Hedin Stenvall, Sofie; Lundberg, Clara; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
    Climate-driven changes in the severity of wildfires are predicted as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. Exposure to local wildfires may represent a source of information for individuals as they evaluate their environmental concerns and support for carbon taxation. Using survey data including expressed environmental concern and support for carbon tax together with regional data on wildfires, we examine the association between regional wildfires, environmental concern, and support for carbon taxation. Examining the period of 2014-2020, we find that wildfires significantly increase the probability that a respondent states the environment as a societal issue. For support for carbon tax, no significant association is found for 2014-2020, but the results suggest wildfires to be positively associated with increased support for carbon tax in the period 2018-2020. The findings contribute to the literature evaluating environmental concern and support for carbon tax by combining spatially disaggregated data on regional wildfires and individual characteristics. Characterizing environmental concern and support for carbon tax is crucial since they affect the policymaking related to reducing carbon emissions.
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    Vindkraftens utveckling i Sverige: Ett vinande koncept
    (2021-07-02) Henschel, Josef; Lundberg, Clara; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
    Wind power is considered to be an important renewable energy source in the transition into a fossil free economy to mitigate climate change. Motivated by its commitments in the Paris Agreement, Sweden has national goals for an expansion of wind power by 100 TWh by the year 2040. The aim of this thesis is to investigate what factors drive the wind power deployment on a municipal level. By using panel data for the years 2009–2020 and the econometric models Probit and Tobit, we investigate the effects of several physical and socio-economic factors on the wind power deployment. The main findings from the Probit model are that having national areas of interest for wind power production, or being a coastal or mountainous municipality, affect the probability of deployment positively, while average income and left-green political ideology affect it negatively. The same relationships are found for the Tobit model, except that political ideology turns out to be statistically insignificant. We draw on a relatively new theory about the tragedy of the anti-commons and discuss the different rights to exclude wind power deployment by citizens, municipalities and authorities, that can be related to this concept. A cost-effective expansion of wind power is of socio-economic interest and possible policy measures discussed are a rationalisation of the process for wind power applications and the system for green electricity certificates.