Sociology of Energy

Malin, Stephanie A.; Mayer, Adam; Harrison, Jill Lindsey

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“…Energy production and consumption patterns are central to the relationship between urban and rural society (Beckley 2017). In the modern energy system most of the electricity generated and financial benefit from its sale, is exported to urban areas, while negative impacts associated with large‐scale industrial developments often accrue in rural areas (Lee and Byrne 2019; Malin, Mayer, and Harrison 2021). As some scholars have noted, “Rural communities at the forefront of new energy development are asking why they are disproportionately being asked to carry the weight of the new carbon economy while urban residents continue their conspicuous use of energy” (Phadke 2013:247).…”

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Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆

Nilson

Stedman

2023

Rural Sociology

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Rural landscapes are under increasing development pressure from utility-scale solar (USS) energy facilities while public attitudes toward these facilities remain poorly documented and understood. This study explores whether opposition to USS in upstate New York is shaped at least in part by perceived rural burden-the idea that rural people and places are unfairly expected to provide new renewable energy in response to urban demand. We explore the idea of rural burden with measures of distributive injustice, procedural injustice, periphery identity, and place attachment. We use a survey (N = 421) of residents of western and northern New York, regions with substantial new and pending USS development. We find that 42 percent of residents oppose USS installations in or near their local communities, 14 percent neither support nor oppose, and 44 percent support. Perceived distributive and procedural injustice, along with place attachment have the strongest effect on opposition, while socio-demographic attributes, political ideology, and climate change beliefs were insignificant. These findings suggest that opposition to large scale renewable energy development exemplifies a rural environmental justice concern justified for many by the perceived legacy of exploitation in natural resource development.

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Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆

Nilson

Stedman

2023

Rural Sociology

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Beyond Petroleum? The Diffusion of Alternative Fuels in the United States, 1994–2015

Vasi,

Sauder

2024

The Sociological Quarterly

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Subnational Environmental Policy: Trends and Issues

Vasi,

Walker

2024

Annual Review of Sociology

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Policies relevant to many key sociological processes are often subnational, enacted at the regional, state/provincial, and/or local levels. This applies notably in the politics of the environmental state, where public and private subnational environmental policies (SNEPs) have major consequences for managing climate change, addressing environmental injustices, regulating land uses, greening energy markets, limiting pollution, and much more. While sociologists focus more on national policies, diverse sociological contributions emphasize the importance of SNEPs and their origins, diffusion, implementation, and sources of backlash. We begin by providing a typology of SNEPs. Next, we highlight not only environmental sociology (with its particular attention to climate change and energy) but also the sociologies of social movements, politics, the economy, science, risk, and organizations, which have each offered unique perspectives. Finally, we outline an agenda for how sociologists can further elaborate a distinctive perspective that highlights inequality, valuation, diffusion, scale shifts, and venue-shopping up to national and global policy systems.

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Sociology of Energy

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Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆

Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆

Beyond Petroleum? The Diffusion of Alternative Fuels in the United States, 1994–2015

Subnational Environmental Policy: Trends and Issues

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Sociology of Energy

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Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York☆

Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York☆

Beyond Petroleum? The Diffusion of Alternative Fuels in the United States, 1994–2015

Subnational Environmental Policy: Trends and Issues

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Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆

Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆