The distribution of conflict and attention across energy infrastructure

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: You, Jongeun; Heikkila, Tanya; Weible, Christopher M.; Kim, Serena; Park, Kyudong; Yordy, Jill; Smolinski, Sharon L.
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Kwangwoon University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12842
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1033-1054
• 关键词: public-attitudes; Wind energy; policy conflict; social license; POWER; acceptance; POLITICS; implementation; PERSPECTIVES; FRAMEWORK

摘要

Across the world, public administration and policy decisions are related to diverse levels of conflict and attention. However, the degree and variance of conflict and attention remain largely unspecified. This article examines how types of energy infrastructure and characteristics of project location are associated with the distribution of conflict and attention around the energy infrastructure siting process. Our empirical focus is on gas pipelines, electricity transmission lines, solar power projects, and wind power projects across the United States in 2018. Primarily relying on regression analysis and interviews, this article finds differences in the distribution of conflict and attention intensity within and between these energy infrastructure types, with gas pipelines and wind power projects presenting relatively higher conflict and attention intensities. However, conflict and attention are skewed to low intensities across infrastructure types. Characteristics of project locations that are positively associated with high conflict and attention intensity include the proportion of Democratic voters and the level of urbanization in the places where projects are sited. In contrast, the proportion of Black or Hispanic residents is negatively associated with high conflict and attention intensity.