Scotland’s Faltering Green Industrial Revolution
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چکیده
Renewable energy has long been central to SNP policy making and Scottish independence. During the 2014 referendum, green electricity generation was presented as a means for Scotland achieve ‘reindustrialisation’. Despite world-leading transition in supply, government struggled develop renewables manufacturing. Scotland’s largest offshore engineering company, BiFab, entered administration 2020. This article explains faltering of industrial revolution. First, it assesses renewables’ privileged place perspectives, underlining its deep roots North Sea oil criticisms British governments’ mismanagement opportunities. Second, failure market-led provide anticipated benefits from wind developments is explained through domineering role foreign state-owned enterprises global supply chains UK’s sector. The conclusion argues that older nationalist perspectives offer remedies, but these require more active diverges current approach Government.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Political Quarterly
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0032-3179', '1467-923X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.12962