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Community Mobilization in Support and Opposition of Wind Energy Development : Evidence from Wasco and Sherman Counties, Oregon

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Karmazina, Anna

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This presentation was given at the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association conference in November 2016.

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from 1992 through 2004,“Wind power helps to diversify the economy. It’s another crop we can harvest
Community Mobilization in Support and Opposition of Wind Energy Development: Evidence from Wasco and Sherman Counties, Oregon

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Karmazina, Anna

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Despite widespread public support for renewable energy development, the siting of wind energy facilities can prove problematic due to opposition from surrounding communities. I propose a unifying framework to explain community response to wind energy development – showing how concepts from environmental sociology related to local biophysical and socioeconomic conditions...

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). According to the U.S. Department of Energy (Brodrick et al. 2014), wind power is the largest non-hydro