Steven M Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resisting the Inevitable
Tar sands oil is rapidly becoming a primary means of powering the world’s petroleum-based economy. Despite some formidable barriers, an oppositional network is developing that spans the North American continent. This paper discusses the diverse nature of this opposition through an examination of 26 collective activities involving some 243 organizations. The first part of the analysis discusses the internal characteristics and the network dynamics…
The Measure of a Nation
Using original and secondary survey data, the authors study the interaction of ethnic and civic factors that Lithuanians consider salient to their national identity. Factor analysis of the original survey data indicates that there are at least three coherent versions of Lithuanian national identity adhered to by young Lithuanians; two of these are ethnic in nature, while the third is civic. These findings challenge the broader scholarly discussio…
Enduring Dreams
The Canadian province of Manitoba has long pursued an aggressive strategy of hydroelectric development. This effort was predicated upon a mix of old and new assumptions, including long-held beliefs that power must be cheap and that the province, operating through its crown utility, Manitoba Hydro, possessed the only legitimate claim to northern land and water resources. The province also recognised the need to remove Aboriginal communities from l…
Belarus
Early commentators on the newly independent Belarusian state of the 1990s indicated that there was something lacking in Belarusian identity. The people did not seem to respond powerfully to the new symbols of the state, use of the national language intermingled with Russian, and economic concerns appeared to trump popular concerns with promoting Belarusian language or culture. Other former Soviet states were embracing ethnic national ideals, and …
From private lives to collective action
Community Energy
Community energy based on a mix of distributed technologies offers a serious alternative to the current energy system. The nature of community energy and the role that such initiatives might play in the general fabric of civic life is not, however, well understood. Community energy initiatives might involve only those citizens who prefer to be actively and continuously involved in intense, democratic debate. A more robust conceptualization of com…
Switching on the Future
A clean energy future is both plausible and in the best interests of the country. The Upper Midwest, acting in concert with appropriate policy changes at the national level, could play a pivotal role in helping the nation move in that direction. As the past century’s embrace of centralized power is beginning to weaken, a variety of policy drivers, including concerns about energy system capacity and reliability, the improvement of public health by…
Negotiating Eternity
Arguing that a crisis is upon us, the Bush Administration has proposed an energy strategy remarkable in its scope and audacity. While much criticism has been directed towards the plan’s ecological impacts, it also guarantees the continuing collapse of communities tha stand in the way of the full realization of the current energy economy. This situation is best understood reference to evolving notions of environmental justice. Unfortunately, the v…
Sustainability
Nature is reacting to the activities of industrial societies in unanticipated and surprising ways. The prospect of global climate change, the thinning of stratospheric ozone, the increasing acidification of rain, snow, and even large bodies of water, and the steady decline in biodiversity have all been linked to the spread of industrial development. Yet the predominant view until recently has been that human activity had little, if any, determina…
Nuclear Optimism and the Technological Imperative
Technological Politics in the Nuclear Age
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
When the lid blew off the Chernobyl No. 4 nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, it released the largest quantity of radioactive material ever in one technological accident. The estimated 28 megacuries of escaping gases dwarfed the less than one megacurie released in the 1957 Windscale (U.K.) accident and the 17 curies from t.he l 979 Three Mi le Island (U.S.) accident. One hundred thirty-thousand people within a 30 kilometer radius were evacuated, a…
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
Some Lessons in the Political Economy of Megapower
The municipal bond market is the institutional mechanism for allocating capital to cities and other tax-exempt borrowers. A key function of this market is to provide investors and borrowers with information that allows them to gauge relative degrees of risk in bond sales, including the possibility of default. The present study examines the risk signals communicated by the municipal bond market to potential investors in five nuclear power plant pr…
Belarus
Early commentators on the newly independent Belarusian state of the 1990s indicated that there was something lacking in Belarusian identity. The people did not seem to respond powerfully to the new symbols of the state, use of the national language intermingled with Russian, and economic concerns appeared to trump popular concerns with promoting Belarusian language or culture. Other former Soviet states were embracing ethnic national ideals, and …
The Measure of a Nation
Using original and secondary survey data, the authors study the interaction of ethnic and civic factors that Lithuanians consider salient to their national identity. Factor analysis of the original survey data indicates that there are at least three coherent versions of Lithuanian national identity adhered to by young Lithuanians; two of these are ethnic in nature, while the third is civic. These findings challenge the broader scholarly discussio…
Some Lessons in the Political Economy of Megapower
The municipal bond market is the institutional mechanism for allocating capital to cities and other tax-exempt borrowers. A key function of this market is to provide investors and borrowers with information that allows them to gauge relative degrees of risk in bond sales, including the possibility of default. The present study examines the risk signals communicated by the municipal bond market to potential investors in five nuclear power plant pr…
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
When the lid blew off the Chernobyl No. 4 nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, it released the largest quantity of radioactive material ever in one technological accident. The estimated 28 megacuries of escaping gases dwarfed the less than one megacurie released in the 1957 Windscale (U.K.) accident and the 17 curies from t.he l 979 Three Mi le Island (U.S.) accident. One hundred thirty-thousand people within a 30 kilometer radius were evacuated, a…
Nuclear Power and Technological Authoritarianism
Technological Politics in the Nuclear Age
Nuclear Optimism and the Technological Imperative
Sustainability
Nature is reacting to the activities of industrial societies in unanticipated and surprising ways. The prospect of global climate change, the thinning of stratospheric ozone, the increasing acidification of rain, snow, and even large bodies of water, and the steady decline in biodiversity have all been linked to the spread of industrial development. Yet the predominant view until recently has been that human activity had little, if any, determina…
Negotiating Eternity
Arguing that a crisis is upon us, the Bush Administration has proposed an energy strategy remarkable in its scope and audacity. While much criticism has been directed towards the plan’s ecological impacts, it also guarantees the continuing collapse of communities tha stand in the way of the full realization of the current energy economy. This situation is best understood reference to evolving notions of environmental justice. Unfortunately, the v…
Switching on the Future
A clean energy future is both plausible and in the best interests of the country. The Upper Midwest, acting in concert with appropriate policy changes at the national level, could play a pivotal role in helping the nation move in that direction. As the past century’s embrace of centralized power is beginning to weaken, a variety of policy drivers, including concerns about energy system capacity and reliability, the improvement of public health by…
Community Energy
Community energy based on a mix of distributed technologies offers a serious alternative to the current energy system. The nature of community energy and the role that such initiatives might play in the general fabric of civic life is not, however, well understood. Community energy initiatives might involve only those citizens who prefer to be actively and continuously involved in intense, democratic debate. A more robust conceptualization of com…
From private lives to collective action
Belarus
Early commentators on the newly independent Belarusian state of the 1990s indicated that there was something lacking in Belarusian identity. The people did not seem to respond powerfully to the new symbols of the state, use of the national language intermingled with Russian, and economic concerns appeared to trump popular concerns with promoting Belarusian language or culture. Other former Soviet states were embracing ethnic national ideals, and …
Enduring Dreams
The Canadian province of Manitoba has long pursued an aggressive strategy of hydroelectric development. This effort was predicated upon a mix of old and new assumptions, including long-held beliefs that power must be cheap and that the province, operating through its crown utility, Manitoba Hydro, possessed the only legitimate claim to northern land and water resources. The province also recognised the need to remove Aboriginal communities from l…
Resisting the Inevitable
Tar sands oil is rapidly becoming a primary means of powering the world’s petroleum-based economy. Despite some formidable barriers, an oppositional network is developing that spans the North American continent. This paper discusses the diverse nature of this opposition through an examination of 26 collective activities involving some 243 organizations. The first part of the analysis discusses the internal characteristics and the network dynamics…
The Measure of a Nation
Using original and secondary survey data, the authors study the interaction of ethnic and civic factors that Lithuanians consider salient to their national identity. Factor analysis of the original survey data indicates that there are at least three coherent versions of Lithuanian national identity adhered to by young Lithuanians; two of these are ethnic in nature, while the third is civic. These findings challenge the broader scholarly discussio…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (3 works)