Marie-Annette Brown
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 248358 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marie-Annette Brown |
| PRENOMES | Marie-Annette |
| SOBRENOME | Brown |
| ASSINATURA | BROWN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3245-7948 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Regional energy security
Regions of the United States (U.S.) are challenged by an array of energy security risks. Complementary constructs of path dependence and adoption readiness, combined with rich data analytics are deployed to investigate four energy conundrums emerging from a participatory planning initiative in the U.S. Southeast (SE). The theory of path dependence explains (1) how low electricity rates and high reserve margins have made the SE an attractive targe…
Frontiers of weatherization
Low-income weatherization programs provide home energy efficiency upgrades to reduce utility costs, improve indoor comfort, and address the health and safety needs of income-constrained households. This review examines seventeen retrospective, outcome-focused evaluations of weatherization programs conducted over the past four decades to assess how program evaluation methods have evolved, where critical gaps remain, and how future studies can impr…
Knowledge is power? Information, partisan cleavages, and support for energy infrastructure
Rescaling energy burden
Could the US become a role model for electricity decarbonization
Rooftop solar for all
High energy burden and low-income energy affordability
In an era of U.S. energy abundance, the persistently high energy bills paid by low-income households is troubling. After decades of weatherization and bill-payment programs, low-income households still spend a higher percent of their income on electricity and gas bills than any other income group. Their energy burden is not declining, and it remains persistently high in particular geographies such as the South, rural America, and minority communi…
Sélection thématique de livres
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The persistence of high energy burdens
Using bibliometric methods, we examine the persistently high energy bills borne by low-income households in the U.S. This is a mystifying problem in today's age of abundant and low-priced electricity and fossil fuels. After decades of energy-efficiency programs and targeted policies, the average low-income household still spends a disproportionately large percentage of its income on energy bills. Issues of equity, race and justice are increasingl…
Relaxing Energy Policies Coupled with Climate Change Will Significantly Undermine Efforts to Attain US Ozone Standards
The United States (US) federal administration is relaxing energy policies (EPs), with yet uncharacterized effects on ambient air quality. The complex effects of EPs coupled with uncertainties associated with future climate have hindered past quantification. Here, we integrate model simulations to show that compared with a scenario of continued EPs and stationary climate, relaxation of EPs coupled with intense warming will increase the number of U…
Understanding renewable energy policy adoption and evolution in Europe
Expert perceptions of enhancing grid resilience with electric vehicles in the United States
The economic and environmental performance of biomass as an “intermediate” resource for power production
Energy Resources and Use
Since the Arab oil embargo of 1973–1974, a growing number of geographers have applied their disciplinary skills to examining the spatial distribution of energy resources and use. Geographical analysis of the costs and benefits of alternative energy policies has also grown in scope and sophistication.
Commercial cogeneration benefits depend on market rules, rates, and policies
The job generation impacts of expanding industrial cogeneration
Forty years of energy security trends
Ancient discipline, modern concern
Enhancing efficiency and renewables with smart grid technologies and policies
Energy benchmarking of commercial buildings
US cities are beginning to experiment with a regulatory approach to address information failures in the real estate market by mandating the energy benchmarking of commercial buildings. Understanding how a commercial building uses energy has many benefits; for example, it helps building owners and tenants identify poor-performing buildings and subsystems and it enables high-performing buildings to achieve greater occupancy rates, rents, and proper…
Understanding attitudes toward energy security
Exploring propositions about perceptions of energy security
Defining a standard metric for electricity savings
Other addresses not given because coauthors are too numerous Version 30 Final version submitted to Environmental Research Letters, after revisions in response to journal reviewers ’ comments
Growing Cooler
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change . Washington, DC : ULI–the Urban Land Institute . 150 pages. ISBN 978-0-87420-082-9 , $39.95 cloth . Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen . 2008 . http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/gcindex.html Metropolitan areas and the built environment are often neglected when solutions to the climate challenge are discussed, yet they are major emitters …
The geography of metropolitan carbon footprints
The world's metropolitan carbon footprints have distinct geographies that are not well understood or recognized in debates about climate change, partly because data on greenhouse gas emissions is so inadequate. This article describes the results of the most comprehensive assessment of carbon footprints for major American metropolitan areas available to date, focusing on residential and transportation carbon emissions for the largest 100 metropoli…
Ancient discipline, modern concern
Scaling the policy response to climate change
This article assesses the advantages and disadvantages of fighting climate change through local, bottom-up strategies as well as global, top-down approaches. After noting that each scale of action—the local and the global—has distinct costs and benefits, the article explores the importance of scale in three case studies (the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, and efforts at adaptation/mitigation). It c…
Understanding renewable energy policy adoption and evolution in Europe
Understanding attitudes toward energy security
Mitigating Climate Change through Green Buildings and Smart Growth
Energy-efficient buildings are seen by climate change experts as one of the least-cost approaches to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper summarizes a study carried out for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change that takes a broader look at the potential role of a climate-friendly built environment including not only considerations of how buildings are constructed and used, but also how they interface with the electric grid and where …
Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Suburban Crime
This paper examines the spatial distribution of crime among Chicago's suburbs by completing a spatial autocorrelation and regression analysis of crime occurrence rates. The results suggest that there is little interjurisdictional spillover of violent crime among the suburbs of Chicago. Rather, the clustered spatial pattern of crime and its decay with distance to the city of Chicago reflects the nonrandom spatial distribution of offender rates. Th…
Exploring propositions about perceptions of energy security
The Labor of Caregiving
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence that chronic and potentially fatal illness has on the caregiving process over time. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 26 family caregivers of people experiencing AIDS or advanced cancer over a 4-month period. Constant comparative analysis was used to analyze the data. A substantive theory of family caregiving for people with life-threatening illnesses was developed around a…
Rescaling energy burden
The geography of metropolitan carbon footprints
The world's metropolitan carbon footprints have distinct geographies that are not well understood or recognized in debates about climate change, partly because data on greenhouse gas emissions is so inadequate. This article describes the results of the most comprehensive assessment of carbon footprints for major American metropolitan areas available to date, focusing on residential and transportation carbon emissions for the largest 100 metropoli…
Developing an 'energy sustainability index' to evaluate energy policy
How well are industrialised nations doing in terms of energy policy? Without a standardised set of metrics to evaluate national energy systems, it is difficult to determine the extent to which energy resources, technologies and infrastructure are truly keeping up with emerging challenges related to climate change, the environment, population growth and economic wellbeing. In response, we propose the creation of an energy sustainability index (ESI…
Rooftop solar for all
Expert perceptions of enhancing grid resilience with electric vehicles in the United States
Forty years of energy security trends
The Changing Morphology of Suburban Crime
This paper examines the spatial dynamics of suburban crime. Four hypotheses are developed postulating a decreasing central city-suburb disparity in crime rates, persistence in the relative crime rates of individual suburbs, a growing heterogeneity in the levels of crime faced by individual suburbs, and an increasing regionalization of suburban crime. The hypotheses are tested through a case study of the Chicago metropolitan area. Property and vio…
Attitudes and Social Categories
This paper explores the relationships between an individual's attitudes toward innovation adoption, his or her social category with respect to adoption, and innovation-adoption behavior. First the paper describes how attitudes and social categories can theoretically be linked to innovation adoption, and proposes a comprehensive model in which the two sets of variables are viewed as explaining both unique and common variance in adoption behavior. …
Assessing U.S. energy policy
told us that we need to use energy more ef1⁄2ciently and derive more of it from domestic sources.1 Since the energy crisis of 1973, U.S. presidents have declared the need to gain independence from unstable foreign energy suppliers and to do so with the same moral fortitude as if 1⁄2ghting a war. Some politicians have proposed massive government programs to achieve the goals of their energy policies; others have sought to unleash freemarket forces…
Knowledge is power? Information, partisan cleavages, and support for energy infrastructure
Enhancing efficiency and renewables with smart grid technologies and policies
Demonstrations as a Policy Instrument With Energy Technology Examples
Demonstration projects can be an effective tool in the diffusion of information and the promotion of new technologies and practices. This article provides a review of knowledge to date. It outlines the characteristics of demonstration projects, their goals, methods employed, and the means by which they are evaluated, using energy technology examples. Further, it discusses how the effectiveness of demonstration projects can be maximized and draws …
Stimulating Energy Conservation by Sharing the Savings
In this paper a novel shared-savings approach to residential energy conservation is evaluated. By the use of data on preretrofit and postretrofit energy consumption, a normalization procedure to control for weather, and control groups, it is concluded that the shared-savings program (RECAP) has reduced annual electricity consumption by 1556 kWh per household, or 6.6% of preretrofit consumption. Energy savings differ markedly across the four commu…
Understanding Residential Energy Conservation through Attitudes and Beliefs
The role of beliefs, attitudes, social influence, and intentions as predictors of residential energy conservation behaviour is explored in the context of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action. Empirical analysis of survey data from Decatur, Illinois provides support for the theory and insight into barriers to energy conservation
A Typology of Suburbs and Its Public Policy Implications
This paper develops a typology of suburbs based on profiles of community need. It illustrates that suburbs vary greatly in their needs for community development and that their dimensions of hardship combine such that suburbs cannot be placed along a continuum on which every dimension of need increases. Suburbs having similar overall levels of need may have quite dissimilar types of need. In order to understand the clustering of various suburban p…
Community Need
Community need
Attitudes and Social Categories
This paper explores the relationships between an individual's attitudes toward innovation adoption, his or her social category with respect to adoption, and innovation-adoption behavior. First the paper describes how attitudes and social categories can theoretically be linked to innovation adoption, and proposes a comprehensive model in which the two sets of variables are viewed as explaining both unique and common variance in adoption behavior. …
A Typology of Suburbs and Its Public Policy Implications
This paper develops a typology of suburbs based on profiles of community need. It illustrates that suburbs vary greatly in their needs for community development and that their dimensions of hardship combine such that suburbs cannot be placed along a continuum on which every dimension of need increases. Suburbs having similar overall levels of need may have quite dissimilar types of need. In order to understand the clustering of various suburban p…
Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Suburban Crime
This paper examines the spatial distribution of crime among Chicago's suburbs by completing a spatial autocorrelation and regression analysis of crime occurrence rates. The results suggest that there is little interjurisdictional spillover of violent crime among the suburbs of Chicago. Rather, the clustered spatial pattern of crime and its decay with distance to the city of Chicago reflects the nonrandom spatial distribution of offender rates. Th…
Understanding Residential Energy Conservation through Attitudes and Beliefs
The role of beliefs, attitudes, social influence, and intentions as predictors of residential energy conservation behaviour is explored in the context of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action. Empirical analysis of survey data from Decatur, Illinois provides support for the theory and insight into barriers to energy conservation
Improving Technological Innovation Through Laboratory/Industry Cooperative R&D
The Changing Morphology of Suburban Crime
This paper examines the spatial dynamics of suburban crime. Four hypotheses are developed postulating a decreasing central city-suburb disparity in crime rates, persistence in the relative crime rates of individual suburbs, a growing heterogeneity in the levels of crime faced by individual suburbs, and an increasing regionalization of suburban crime. The hypotheses are tested through a case study of the Chicago metropolitan area. Property and vio…
Stimulating Energy Conservation by Sharing the Savings
In this paper a novel shared-savings approach to residential energy conservation is evaluated. By the use of data on preretrofit and postretrofit energy consumption, a normalization procedure to control for weather, and control groups, it is concluded that the shared-savings program (RECAP) has reduced annual electricity consumption by 1556 kWh per household, or 6.6% of preretrofit consumption. Energy savings differ markedly across the four commu…
Demonstrations as a Policy Instrument With Energy Technology Examples
Demonstration projects can be an effective tool in the diffusion of information and the promotion of new technologies and practices. This article provides a review of knowledge to date. It outlines the characteristics of demonstration projects, their goals, methods employed, and the means by which they are evaluated, using energy technology examples. Further, it discusses how the effectiveness of demonstration projects can be maximized and draws …
Promoting the Commercialization of Energy Innovations
This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the US Department of Energy's Energy-Related Inventions Program (ERIP). ERIP provides small grants and technical assistance to small businesses and independent inventors attempting to develop and commercialize new energy technologies. The primary purpose of this evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of ERIP in moving these technologies from the laboratory bench to the marketplace. A secondar…
Demonstrations
Issues in assessing the cost-effectiveness of coordinated DSM programs
The Labor of Caregiving
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence that chronic and potentially fatal illness has on the caregiving process over time. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 26 family caregivers of people experiencing AIDS or advanced cancer over a 4-month period. Constant comparative analysis was used to analyze the data. A substantive theory of family caregiving for people with life-threatening illnesses was developed around a…
Relationships Between Perception of Engagement with Health Care Provider and Demographic Characteristics, Health Status, and Adherence to Therapeutic Regimen in Persons with HIV/Aids
The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to examine the relationships between perception of engagement with health care provider and demographic characteristics, health status, and adherence to therapeutic regimen in persons with HIV/AIDS. The convenience sample of 707 non-hospitalized persons receiving health care for HIV/AIDS was recruited from seven U.S. sites. All measures were self-report. Perception of engagement with health…
Assessing U.S. energy policy
told us that we need to use energy more ef1⁄2ciently and derive more of it from domestic sources.1 Since the energy crisis of 1973, U.S. presidents have declared the need to gain independence from unstable foreign energy suppliers and to do so with the same moral fortitude as if 1⁄2ghting a war. Some politicians have proposed massive government programs to achieve the goals of their energy policies; others have sought to unleash freemarket forces…
Developing an 'energy sustainability index' to evaluate energy policy
How well are industrialised nations doing in terms of energy policy? Without a standardised set of metrics to evaluate national energy systems, it is difficult to determine the extent to which energy resources, technologies and infrastructure are truly keeping up with emerging challenges related to climate change, the environment, population growth and economic wellbeing. In response, we propose the creation of an energy sustainability index (ESI…
Mitigating Climate Change through Green Buildings and Smart Growth
Energy-efficient buildings are seen by climate change experts as one of the least-cost approaches to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper summarizes a study carried out for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change that takes a broader look at the potential role of a climate-friendly built environment including not only considerations of how buildings are constructed and used, but also how they interface with the electric grid and where …
Growing Cooler
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change . Washington, DC : ULI–the Urban Land Institute . 150 pages. ISBN 978-0-87420-082-9 , $39.95 cloth . Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen . 2008 . http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/gcindex.html Metropolitan areas and the built environment are often neglected when solutions to the climate challenge are discussed, yet they are major emitters …
The geography of metropolitan carbon footprints
The world's metropolitan carbon footprints have distinct geographies that are not well understood or recognized in debates about climate change, partly because data on greenhouse gas emissions is so inadequate. This article describes the results of the most comprehensive assessment of carbon footprints for major American metropolitan areas available to date, focusing on residential and transportation carbon emissions for the largest 100 metropoli…
Scaling the policy response to climate change
This article assesses the advantages and disadvantages of fighting climate change through local, bottom-up strategies as well as global, top-down approaches. After noting that each scale of action—the local and the global—has distinct costs and benefits, the article explores the importance of scale in three case studies (the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, and efforts at adaptation/mitigation). It c…
Defining a standard metric for electricity savings
Other addresses not given because coauthors are too numerous Version 30 Final version submitted to Environmental Research Letters, after revisions in response to journal reviewers ’ comments
Exploring propositions about perceptions of energy security
Energy benchmarking of commercial buildings
US cities are beginning to experiment with a regulatory approach to address information failures in the real estate market by mandating the energy benchmarking of commercial buildings. Understanding how a commercial building uses energy has many benefits; for example, it helps building owners and tenants identify poor-performing buildings and subsystems and it enables high-performing buildings to achieve greater occupancy rates, rents, and proper…
Understanding attitudes toward energy security
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