Governing the Wind Energy Commons: Renewable Energy and Community Development

by Keith Taylor

Book Overview

Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging "green economy" destined to upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind energy firms, however, are subsidiaries of the same fossil fuel companies that wrought havoc in shale-gas and coal-mining towns from rural Appalachia to the Great Plains. On its own, wind energy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946684856
• ISBN13: 9781946684851
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"