Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts

By (author) Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal, Catherine Morris, Stacie Smith

Publication date:

28 September 2018

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783088522

Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts studies energy in the landscape across gas and oil, wind, transmission and nuclear waste disposal. The authors are particularly interested in the conflicts that emerge from specific sites and proposals as well as how this unique land use plays out in terms of conflict and resolution across scales and jurisdictions while touching on broader issues of policy and values. Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts briefly explains the general context around the energy type; the impacts and conflicts that have arisen given this context; the role laws, rules and jurisdictions play in mitigating, resolving or creating more conflict; and the ways in which communication, collaboration and conflict resolution have been or could be used to ameliorate the conflicts that inevitably arise.

Introduction: The Complexity and Conflicts of Energy in the US Landscape; 1. Land-Based Wind Energy Siting: The Not-So-Silent Wind; 2. Nuclear Waste Siting: Getting Good People to Accept the Bad; 3. Gas and Oil and Unconventional Shale: The New, Old Frontier; 4. The Linear Challenge: Transmission and Natural Gas Pipelines; Conclusions and Recommendations; Index.

“Land-based energy projects can often lead to conflicts resulting from an uneven distribution of costs and benefits. Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts addresses the full range of potential land-use conflicts accompanying energy projects with a set of practice-tested tools capable of providing shared gains through collaboration and dispute resolution.”
—Armando Carbonell, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, USA