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WIND POWER, PUBLIC POWER: EVALUATING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION in NEW ENGLAND LAND-BASED WIND DEVELOPMENT
Renewable energy public participation stakeholder process wind power New England planning
2014/11/11
Wind energy is a means of energy production without carbon emissions, facilitating regional and national energy security. While there are currently no offshore wind farms in the United States, there h...
From Indicators to Action: Evaluating the Usefulness of Indicators to Move from Regional Climate Change Assessment to Local Adaptation Implementation
indicators climate change adaptation decision support adaptation planning
2014/11/11
As the effects of climate change become increasingly damaging and costly, a public and political consensus is building for planning that will protect private property and public infrastructure. Climat...
Energy Efficiency Programs at All Utilities: An Analysis of the Factors that Lead Electric Utilities to Invest in Energy Efficiency
energy efficiency programs energy policy rural electric cooperative municipal utility investor-owned utility energy efficiency resource standard
2014/11/11
While the utilization of energy efficiency has grown in recent years, it has not been distributed evenly across the country. In some states, over 2% of a utility’s budget is spent on energy efficiency...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREEN GROWTH: EVALUATING THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GREEN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM IN MASSACHUSETTS RELATIVE TO OTHER MUNICIPAL PROGRAMS
Green Community program energy efficiency GHG reduction Climate change
2014/11/11
The Massachusetts Green Communities Grant Program (GCP) was created by passage of the Massachusetts Green Communities Act in 2008, which provides funding, tools and technical support to assist local c...
Community Land Trusts and Rental Housing: Assessing Obstacles to and Opportunities for Increasing Access
community land trust renter displacement gentrification community control
2014/11/11
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are an affordable housing model based in the principles of community control of land and housing, as well as the permanent affordability of home ownership. Because of thei...
The Role of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices, Impervious Surfaces and Natural Factors on Base Flow in Massachusetts
base flow Best Management Practices impervious surfaces GIS regression
2014/11/11
This research conducted a GIS analysis of twenty-eight sub-watersheds in Massachusetts and considered five factors which the literature suggested influenced base flow. The literature suggested a posit...
Locating Environmental Justice Populations: A Method for Identifying Vulnerable Populations in Massachusetts
Environmental Justice Regional Planning In-Justice GIS Vulnerable Populations Hazards
2014/11/11
Environmental Justice is an issue that has been relevant in the mind of the federal government for the past 18 years. Within society, the goal of Environmental Justice looks to prevent the exploitatio...
Food System Planning in Western Massachusetts: A Community Organization Assessment
Food system Food security Community organization Assessment Regional Planning
2014/11/11
Comprehensive planning for regional food systems is a relatively new focus in the planning field. Heightened national awareness of the economic, environmental and equity implications of our current fo...
Exploring the Relationship between Neighborhood Social Interactions and Urban Sprawl in U.S Metropolitan Regions
Urban sprawl social interactions metropolitan regions
2014/11/11
As a pattern of growth, sprawl is often criticized for its extensive negative impacts. These impacts range from economic costs to health and environmental problems. Critics of sprawl have also emphasi...
Low-Income Mothers and Their Pursuit of Food in a Rural Massachusetts County: A Qualitative Study from a Feminist Point of View
food security feminism planning grounded theory low-income mothers
2014/11/11
This study reintroduces the disciplines of feminism and planning with the hope that planners will incorporate aspects of feminist theory, which has historically been overlooked by traditional western ...
An Assessment of Regional Partnerships for Economic Development through the National Heritage Area Collaborative Model
heritage economic development planning partnerships NHA
2014/11/11
The National Heritage Area program administered by the National Park Service represents a collaborative partnership approach to managing large-scale natural and living landscapes. Heritage area manage...
Modeling Space Heating Demand in Massachusetts’ Housing Stock and the Implications for Climate Change Mitigation Policy
Energy Efficiency Climate Change Mitigation Planning Modeling Energy Policy
2014/11/11
This research examines variation in average household energy consumption for space heating in municipalities in Massachusetts in order to explore the magnitude of variation among communities and poten...
An Ecosystem Approach to the Sustainability of Urbanizing Watersheds
ecosystem approach land use impacts to water quality and water quantity watershed modeling Deliberative Attribute Prioritization Procedure (DAPP) stakeholder participation municipal planning and zoning
2014/11/11
Political boundaries make watershed planning difficult despite the influence of many state and federal programs. Broad, top-down, watershed initiatives fail to reach many municipalities due to human r...
Planning for Passenger Rail in Small Cities and Towns
transit-oriented development small town planning public transportation rural transit
2014/11/11
Projects to expand the passenger rail network in the United States will connect major metropolitan areas over long distances, travelling through smaller communities along the way. Transit-oriented dev...
Socio-spatial Constructs of the Local Retail Food Environment: A Case Study of Holyoke, Massachusetts
food security social justice food desert local food environment urban planning
2014/11/11
This mixed-methods study addresses the relationship between the availability of food and realized food access by studying the retail food landscape of Holyoke, Massachusetts – a small, socio-economica...