Lazarus Adua
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 283642 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lazarus Adua |
| NOMBRES | Lazarus |
| APELLIDO | Adua |
| FIRMA | ADUA L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4294-1920 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Signs of Fissures? Business Influence, Local Political Orientation, and U.S. Communities’ Climate Policy
Local business entities in the United States have generally been wary of environmental regulations and policy. They express concern that environmental policy interferes with and stymies economic growth. Over the years, these entities have worked with conservatives and Republicans to scuttle or influence environmental policy. However, as the social and economic costs of the climate crisis increasingly mount, could this position and associated resp…
Another elephant in the room? how energy-intensive lifestyles may undermine the fight against climate change
Climate change represents a major threat to the world, yet policy responses to it have been tepid and ineffective. Recent dire warnings and more frequent climate-related extreme weather events have stirred greater interest in more assertive responses, mostly around two beloved “solutions or policy areas”—transitioning to renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement. This study investigates whether these solutions lessen carbon emissions. Mo…
Transforming the residential built environment
An independent assessment of potential social impacts of the newly initiated inland port in Salt Lake City, United States
State and local authorities in Utah, the United States, have initiated a new inland port project in Salt Lake City amidst unresolved controversies and disagreements. While a proper social impact assessment (SIA) can help address the manifold concerns of the community, there is currently no indication authorities of the new inland port are considering such an assessment. To help ameliorate this situation, at least in part, we conduct an independen…
The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels
William Stanley Jevons identified what has come to be known as the Jevons paradox: the observation that improvements in energy efficiency are often connected with rising , not falling, energy consumption. This insight informs the subsequent economic concept of the “rebound effect” and the expansive research investigating this relationship. We provide an overview of key empirical research, which establishes that large rebounds in energy consumptio…
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy
Seeking a handle on climate change
The Political-Economy of Local Land-Use Policy
This study takes a new look at place development, analyzing the power of local business actors as compared to civic society and government in localities across the United States. We address the contested question of who controls place-making with a focus on growth control land-use policies. Theoretically, we draw from sociology’s growth machine framework to provide a comparative account of business actors and to speak to puzzling findings from th…
The ineffectiveness of efficiency
Reducing fossil fuel consumption in the household sector by enabling technology and behavior
Politics and Corporate‐Sector Environmentally Significant Actions
This study assesses the direct, indirect, and total impacts of political partisanship on state‐level utilities' investment in energy efficiency. This subject is of utmost importance because energy efficiency improvement has become a linchpin in worldwide efforts to combat climate change and other environmental challenges. Analysis of data on 51 electric utilities nested within 31 U.S. states indicates that political partisanship influences utilit…
U.S. states initiation of energy efficiency policies in the era of climate change
Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption
This study adopts a multi-level approach to examine the extent to which state- and household-level factors shape residential energy consumption in the United States, focusing on efficiency improvement and affluence. Analyzing the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, state-level energy efficiency data from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and other sources, we find that state context significantly influences ene…
The Growth Machine across the United States
The growth machine (GM) perspective has long guided urban research. Our study provides a new extension of this perspective, focusing on local business actors’ influence on communities across the United States. We question whether GM–oriented business actors remain widely associated with contemporary local economic development policies, and further, whether these actors influence the use of limited–government austerity policies. Conceptually, we e…
Place-based Inequality in 'Energetic' Pain
Despite the tendency for some to view rural life or living close to nature with nostalgia, the unpalatable truth is that rural America is beset with many problems, including lower incomes, higher poverty rates, limited access to well-paying jobs, higher morbidity and mortality rates, inadequate access to health care, and lower educational attainment. In this study, we question whether this palpable rural disadvantage extends to residential energy…
The human dimensions of climate change
Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States
Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes a new look at these policies, providing a first view of how they unfold across the nation at a geographic scale that drills down to the local stat…
State rescaling and local governments' austerity policies across the USA, 2001-2008
This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use of limited government austerity policies across regions and over time and newer state-rescaling literature that challenges this view. Analyses are based on data collected in 2008 with cross-time policy comparisons with 2001 from over 1700 counties. The findings indica…
The Ecological Modernization Reader
The Social Basis of Agro-Environmental Concern
In this study, we explore the social basis of environmental concern, specifically focusing on attitudes about the agricultural environment in relation to an individual's geographic and social distance from agriculture. We also consider the significance of rural recreational behaviors in relation to agro-environmental concern. The analysis, based on data from a statewide survey of Ohioans, reveals a strong relationship between one's geographic loc…
Alternative Energy
State rescaling and local governments' austerity policies across the USA, 2001-2008
This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use of limited government austerity policies across regions and over time and newer state-rescaling literature that challenges this view. Analyses are based on data collected in 2008 with cross-time policy comparisons with 2001 from over 1700 counties. The findings indica…
Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States
Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes a new look at these policies, providing a first view of how they unfold across the nation at a geographic scale that drills down to the local stat…
The Social Basis of Agro-Environmental Concern
In this study, we explore the social basis of environmental concern, specifically focusing on attitudes about the agricultural environment in relation to an individual's geographic and social distance from agriculture. We also consider the significance of rural recreational behaviors in relation to agro-environmental concern. The analysis, based on data from a statewide survey of Ohioans, reveals a strong relationship between one's geographic loc…
The ineffectiveness of efficiency
Seeking a handle on climate change
The Growth Machine across the United States
The growth machine (GM) perspective has long guided urban research. Our study provides a new extension of this perspective, focusing on local business actors’ influence on communities across the United States. We question whether GM–oriented business actors remain widely associated with contemporary local economic development policies, and further, whether these actors influence the use of limited–government austerity policies. Conceptually, we e…
Place-based Inequality in 'Energetic' Pain
Despite the tendency for some to view rural life or living close to nature with nostalgia, the unpalatable truth is that rural America is beset with many problems, including lower incomes, higher poverty rates, limited access to well-paying jobs, higher morbidity and mortality rates, inadequate access to health care, and lower educational attainment. In this study, we question whether this palpable rural disadvantage extends to residential energy…
Reducing fossil fuel consumption in the household sector by enabling technology and behavior
The human dimensions of climate change
The Political-Economy of Local Land-Use Policy
This study takes a new look at place development, analyzing the power of local business actors as compared to civic society and government in localities across the United States. We address the contested question of who controls place-making with a focus on growth control land-use policies. Theoretically, we draw from sociology’s growth machine framework to provide a comparative account of business actors and to speak to puzzling findings from th…
Another elephant in the room? how energy-intensive lifestyles may undermine the fight against climate change
Climate change represents a major threat to the world, yet policy responses to it have been tepid and ineffective. Recent dire warnings and more frequent climate-related extreme weather events have stirred greater interest in more assertive responses, mostly around two beloved “solutions or policy areas”—transitioning to renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement. This study investigates whether these solutions lessen carbon emissions. Mo…
Politics and Corporate‐Sector Environmentally Significant Actions
This study assesses the direct, indirect, and total impacts of political partisanship on state‐level utilities' investment in energy efficiency. This subject is of utmost importance because energy efficiency improvement has become a linchpin in worldwide efforts to combat climate change and other environmental challenges. Analysis of data on 51 electric utilities nested within 31 U.S. states indicates that political partisanship influences utilit…
U.S. states initiation of energy efficiency policies in the era of climate change
Alternative Energy
The Social Basis of Agro-Environmental Concern
In this study, we explore the social basis of environmental concern, specifically focusing on attitudes about the agricultural environment in relation to an individual's geographic and social distance from agriculture. We also consider the significance of rural recreational behaviors in relation to agro-environmental concern. The analysis, based on data from a statewide survey of Ohioans, reveals a strong relationship between one's geographic loc…
State rescaling and local governments' austerity policies across the USA, 2001-2008
This study examines the geography of local austerity policies across the USA. We contrast two perspectives, the political economy framework that sees a general shift towards the use of limited government austerity policies across regions and over time and newer state-rescaling literature that challenges this view. Analyses are based on data collected in 2008 with cross-time policy comparisons with 2001 from over 1700 counties. The findings indica…
The Ecological Modernization Reader
Privatization, Business Attraction, and Social Services across the United States
Privatization, business attraction incentives, and limited social service provision are market-oriented policies that broadly concern social scientists. These policies are conventionally assumed to be widely implemented across the United States, a world model of neoliberal development. This study takes a new look at these policies, providing a first view of how they unfold across the nation at a geographic scale that drills down to the local stat…
The human dimensions of climate change
Place-based Inequality in 'Energetic' Pain
Despite the tendency for some to view rural life or living close to nature with nostalgia, the unpalatable truth is that rural America is beset with many problems, including lower incomes, higher poverty rates, limited access to well-paying jobs, higher morbidity and mortality rates, inadequate access to health care, and lower educational attainment. In this study, we question whether this palpable rural disadvantage extends to residential energy…
Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption
This study adopts a multi-level approach to examine the extent to which state- and household-level factors shape residential energy consumption in the United States, focusing on efficiency improvement and affluence. Analyzing the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, state-level energy efficiency data from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and other sources, we find that state context significantly influences ene…
The Growth Machine across the United States
The growth machine (GM) perspective has long guided urban research. Our study provides a new extension of this perspective, focusing on local business actors’ influence on communities across the United States. We question whether GM–oriented business actors remain widely associated with contemporary local economic development policies, and further, whether these actors influence the use of limited–government austerity policies. Conceptually, we e…
The ineffectiveness of efficiency
Reducing fossil fuel consumption in the household sector by enabling technology and behavior
Politics and Corporate‐Sector Environmentally Significant Actions
This study assesses the direct, indirect, and total impacts of political partisanship on state‐level utilities' investment in energy efficiency. This subject is of utmost importance because energy efficiency improvement has become a linchpin in worldwide efforts to combat climate change and other environmental challenges. Analysis of data on 51 electric utilities nested within 31 U.S. states indicates that political partisanship influences utilit…
U.S. states initiation of energy efficiency policies in the era of climate change
Seeking a handle on climate change
The Political-Economy of Local Land-Use Policy
This study takes a new look at place development, analyzing the power of local business actors as compared to civic society and government in localities across the United States. We address the contested question of who controls place-making with a focus on growth control land-use policies. Theoretically, we draw from sociology’s growth machine framework to provide a comparative account of business actors and to speak to puzzling findings from th…
An independent assessment of potential social impacts of the newly initiated inland port in Salt Lake City, United States
State and local authorities in Utah, the United States, have initiated a new inland port project in Salt Lake City amidst unresolved controversies and disagreements. While a proper social impact assessment (SIA) can help address the manifold concerns of the community, there is currently no indication authorities of the new inland port are considering such an assessment. To help ameliorate this situation, at least in part, we conduct an independen…
The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels
William Stanley Jevons identified what has come to be known as the Jevons paradox: the observation that improvements in energy efficiency are often connected with rising , not falling, energy consumption. This insight informs the subsequent economic concept of the “rebound effect” and the expansive research investigating this relationship. We provide an overview of key empirical research, which establishes that large rebounds in energy consumptio…
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy
Transforming the residential built environment
Signs of Fissures? Business Influence, Local Political Orientation, and U.S. Communities’ Climate Policy
Local business entities in the United States have generally been wary of environmental regulations and policy. They express concern that environmental policy interferes with and stymies economic growth. Over the years, these entities have worked with conservatives and Republicans to scuttle or influence environmental policy. However, as the social and economic costs of the climate crisis increasingly mount, could this position and associated resp…
Another elephant in the room? how energy-intensive lifestyles may undermine the fight against climate change
Climate change represents a major threat to the world, yet policy responses to it have been tepid and ineffective. Recent dire warnings and more frequent climate-related extreme weather events have stirred greater interest in more assertive responses, mostly around two beloved “solutions or policy areas”—transitioning to renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement. This study investigates whether these solutions lessen carbon emissions. Mo…
Economics (16 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Engineering (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)