Articles
The Motivations Behind Municipal Climate Engagement: An Empirical Assessment of How Local Objectives Shape the Production of a Public Good, Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research (2013)
Cities engage in greenhouse gas mitigation efforts because of some combination of desires to achieve...
An Assessment of the Impact that Participation in Local Climate Networks has on Cities’ Implementation of Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies, Review of Policy Research (2012)
Much of the attention surrounding local climate protection in the United States is associated with...
Early public impressions of terrestrial carbon capture and storage in a coal-intensive state., Environmental Science and Technology (2012)
While carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered to be critical to achieving long-term climate-protection...
Intent to purchase a plug-in electric vehicle: A survey of early impressions in large U.S. cites, Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment (2012)
This paper examines consumer stated intent to purchase plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and assesses the...
The Impact of Municipal Renewable Electricity Use on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States, Energy Policy (2012)
Local governments are increasingly taking initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, limited and...
An assessment of the greenhouse gas reducing activities being implemented in US cities, Local Environment (2011)
Local climate protection initiatives are receiving increased attention and support. However, most of the current...
Political Decision-Making and the Local Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Municipal Climate Protection, Urban Studies (2011)
The municipal political decision-making dynamic has typically been studied in regard to the provision of...
Symbolic or Substantive Policy? Measuring the Extent of Local Commitment to Climate Protection, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2011)
Over 1,000 U.S. municipalities have formally committed to reduce their local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
Transaction Costs and Environmental Policy: An Assessment Framework and Literature Review, International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics (2011)
This article develops a “transaction cost” framework for the analysis of environmental policy, and uses...
Policy Innovation, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Adoption of Climate Protection Initiatives by U.S. Cities, Journal of Urban Affairs (2010)
In the absence of federal requirements, how do state- and municipal-level characteristics impact the probability...
Developing conditions for environmentally sustainable consumption: drawing insight from anti-smoking policy, International Journal of Consumer Studies (2009)
This paper starts from the premise that, particularly in industrialized countries, the consumption decisions made...