Overview
- Broadens our understanding of public support and opposition to alternative energy technologies
- Explores how environmentally oriented citizens weigh the environmental trade-offs concerning the siting of alternative energy technologies
- Provides case studies of alternative energy siting controversies
- Identifies best practices for future siting considerations
- Valuable to students and policy makers interested in the promotion of alternative energy technologies
Part of the book series: Environmental Challenges and Solutions (ECAS, volume 8)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge, demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to the development and implementation of alternative energy technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense opposition from a variety of sources, including many environmentalists from whom one might expect support for non-carbon based renewable energy initiatives. This volume argues that there are indeed such discernible attributes, and moreover that the identification and exploration are important for the development of support strategies for the well-informed and achievable siting of such technologies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
John C. Pierce
John Pierce (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is Faculty Research Associate and Lecturer in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas and Graduate Faculty in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. Pierce is author or co-author of approximately 20 books and monographs and 150 articles, chapters and essays.
Brent S. Steel
Brent S. Steel is Professor and Director of the Public Policy Graduate Program in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. He teaches courses in comparative public policy, politics and administration. Steel is co-author of State and Local Government: Prospects for Sustainability (Oxford University Press) and editor of Science and Politics: An A to Z Guide to Issues and Controversies (Sage).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U.S. West
Book Subtitle: Tilting at Windmills?
Authors: John C. Pierce, Brent S. Steel
Series Title: Environmental Challenges and Solutions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53414-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53413-8Published: 11 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85147-1Published: 08 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53414-5Published: 04 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2214-2827
Series E-ISSN: 2214-2835
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Natural Resources, Renewable and Green Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environmental Management