Simon Schaub

Simon Schaub
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Heidelberg University · Institute of Political Science

Dr. rer. pol.
Researcher at Heidelberg University working on environmental and climate policy

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Publications (36)
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European water policies aim to promote tap water consumption among citizens. Our survey of 5815 German respondents investigates factors influencing tap water consumption in key out-of-home settings: workplace, recreational sports, hospitality and travel. Results show tap water is consumed most frequently in sports settings and least in hospitality,...
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The attribution of responsibility is an important aspect of democratic government and governance. This study is interested in explaining variation in the responsibility that the public attributes to farmers for tackling climate change and environmental degradation. It analyzes data for respondents based in the 27 member states of the European Union...
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This study aims to uncover how shifting towards a radical left ideology affects a city’s climate policy. Using semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and an analysis of local action plans and laws enacted in Barcelona between 1984 and May 2023, we find that the period of local government led by the radical left, embodied by Barcelona in Commo...
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The corpus of national climate policies continues to grow, but to what effect? Using data on 2,782 policy instruments in 43 OECD countries and major emerging economies over the period 2000–2019 we show that national climate policy portfolios that specialise on certain instrument types and sectors are associated with faster reductions in fossil CO2...
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Elected politicians and civil servants are key in developing climate policy. The articles in this special issue investigate factors that induce politico-administrative actors to adopt climate policies and dismantle anti-climate policies to advance decarbonisation. Politico-administrative actors have predominantly expanded climate policy and raised...
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Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address this important gap, we perform a systematic review of 141 articles on politicians and climate change published between 1985 and 2021. We find a growing research area; almost half of the arti...
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Climate change represents one of the most polarized issues in the United States (Smith et al. 2024) and the upcoming presidential elections in November will probably be decisive for future climate action in the US. For long, the US has been a laggard on climate change. Major progress in federal climate policy has only been made in recent years, esp...
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How does autocratization affect the environmental performance of states? While research on this question is still limited, a rich body of research has investigated a related research question, namely how regime types relate to environmental performance, focusing on the differences between different types of democracies and autocracies. In this chap...
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Language plays a decisive role in politics. At various stages of the policy process, language influences what topics are placed on the political agenda, which political solutions prevail, and whether adopted policy measures are perceived as legitimate and lead to intended behavioral changes. Given that language has an impact on the policy process,...
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Was ist Politikwissenschaft? Was verstehen wir unter politikwissenschaftlicher Umweltforschung? Welche Forschungsbereiche, Institutionen und Studienmöglichkeiten gibt es und mit welchen Themen hat sich die politikwissenschaftliche Umweltforschung in den letzten Jahren beschäftigt? Diese und weitere Fragen stehen im Vordergrund dieses Überblickartik...
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Environmental policies that fail to be implemented also fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as fulfil other goals related to environmental protection. Consequently, a vast body of research has emerged that assesses how environmental policies are implemented, that is, how they are put into practice. In this chapter, the authors give an o...
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Is there a rural–urban divide in citizens’ views on European Union agricultural policy? We argue that the place of residence influences a person’s attitude toward agricultural policy issues. More precisely, we postulate that rural populations are less likely to view environmental and climate action, and sustainable food production as key objectives...
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Today’s complex policy problems are strongly characterized by interdependencies across sectors. Such interdependencies hamper the sustainable management of natural resources such as water. The protection of water resources exhibits manifold interlinkages, often with energy and food policy. Interdependent policy problems entail trade-offs across pol...
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National policy ambition plays a central role in climate change governance under the Paris Agreement and is now a focus of rapidly emerging literature. In this contribution, we argue that policy ambition can be captured by the level of national policy activity, which in accordance with the existing literature should be referred to as "policy densit...
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Adopting public policies to deliver the ambitious long-term goals of the Paris Agreement will require significant societal commitment. That commitment will eventually emerge from the interaction between policies, publics and politicians. This article has two main aims. First, it reviews the existing literatures on these three to identify salient re...
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We examine stakeholder participation in the online debate on genetically modified organisms in China and assess how the debate has changed over time. Therefore, we compare messages posted between 2013 and 2020 on the Chinese microblog website Weibo by using discourse network analysis. Our findings reveal strong opposition to genetically modified cr...
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Many of the current scenario studies on future water extremes do not seem to adequately address their emerging wickedness. Instead, they often focus on one of the extremes: floods or droughts or pollution, but not on the complexity of interlinkages between extremes. Also, very few studies seem to integrate the natural and the social science perspec...
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The overuse of fertilizers in agriculture and their entry into freshwater has many negative impacts on biodiversity and poses problems for drinking water resources in Germany. In response to exceeding levels of nitrate concentrations in groundwater in parts of the country, an intense public dispute evolved and a significant policy change in fertili...
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Policymakers increasingly perceive of micropollutants in water (e.g. pharmaceutical residues) as an issue that needs to be addressed. How do environmental groups, in their capacity as knowledge brokers between science and politics, contribute to evidence-based policymaking concerning aquatic micro pollutants? To address this research question, we c...
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This dissertation set out to investigate whether studying the public debates on water pollution by agricultural nitrate and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) contributes to an enhanced understanding of differences in respective policymaking in Germany. Theoretically, the articles of this cumulative dissertation predominantly built on previous...
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One of the European Union (EU) institutions' responses to the alleged "democratic deficit" in the EU is the introduction of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI). The ECI provides an agenda-setting tool accessible to different advocacy groups. This study investigates the narrative strategies of ECI organizers to mobilize citizens across the EU. W...
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Die Europäische Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL) wird weltweit als eine der ambitioniertesten Umweltverordnungen anerkannt. Sie verlangt die Wiederherstellung des guten chemischen und ökologischen Zustandes oder des guten ökologischen Potenzials aller europäischen Gewässer bis zum Jahr 2027. Die WRRL wurde im Jahr 2000 ratifiziert, aber die Ergebnisse...
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Despite clear-cut scientific evidence for pharmaceutical contaminants causing adverse effects in aquatic life, the regulatory response in Germany has been weak. In principle, there are different policy approaches to address pharmaceutical contaminants: German water protection policies mostly follows a control approach, complemented by end-of-pipe s...
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The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) entered into force in December 2000; it marks a decisive turn in European water governance and related policies, management practices and restoration trends. After 20 years of implementation through two anagement cycles, EU member states have transposed the WFD requirements into national law, performed b...
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Städte und Gemeinden verfügen in Deutschland über die Möglichkeit, Landwirten den Anbau gentechnisch veränderter (gv) Pflanzen auf kommunalen Flächen zu untersagen. Damit die erforderlichen Klauseln in kommunale Pachtverträge eingefügt werden können, müssen entsprechende Ratsbeschlüsse herbeigeführt werden. Die Forschungsfrage lautet folgendermaßen...
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To understand how actors make collective policy decisions, scholars use policy and discourse network approaches to analyze interdependencies among actors. While policy networks often build on survey data, discourse networks typically use media data to capture the beliefs or policy preferences shared by actors. One of the reasons for the variety of...
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In several European countries and at the level of the European Union, we can observe political and societal attempts to promote the use of tap water. Most prominently, the European Commission proposed revisions for the Drinking Water Directive, which includes strategies for promoting the consumption of tap water. The strategies comprise the followi...
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The ever-increasing consumption of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents and food additives puts aquatic ecosystems under strain. Accordingly, respective regulation of micropollutants in surface waters is an issue that not only needs to include the perspective of public actors and producers but also that of the consumers. Complementing existing li...
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Scholars have increasingly argued for an integration of policies on agriculture and water due to their strong interlinkage. The entry of agricultural pollutants into water represents one of the main pressures on Europe's ground and surface waters. This not only poses a risk to the environment and human health but also jeopardizes meeting the target...
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Die Verunreinigung von Gewässern in Deutschland ist wieder zunehmend Gegenstand der öffentlichen und politischen Debatte. Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts galt das Problem durch gesetzgeberisches Handeln auf deutscher und europäischer Ebene als weitgehend behoben. Neue wissenschaftliche Evidenz und die intensivere Berichterstattung in den Medien zur Verun...
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This study investigates municipalities' regulatory activities in the field of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for agricultural use. To explore the determinants of these activities, the case of Germany was selected as in this country, municipalities have legal possibilities to impose local GMO cultivation bans. Using data from 131 local counci...
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The objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which supporters and opponents at the European Union (EU) level strive to mobilize the public with regard the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). To this end, it addresses two research questions: First, to which concepts do GMO opponents and supporters refer when seeking to mob...

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