Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts

A study of the underlying dynamics of energy siting across resources and kinds of energy.

Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.

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.