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Papers by Julia Haggerty

Energy Research & Social Science

Society & Natural Resources

he more we learn from about the dark genius and power behind the spread of Fast Food, the further... more he more we learn from about the dark genius and power behind the spread of Fast Food, the further the range of our mobile phones extends, the more time we spend commuting, the longer the work day grows, the harder it seems to imagine an alternative modern reality. Can we-and do we want to-find an antidote to the alluring convenience of the instant meal and the instant message? Can we turn away the purported reliability of genetically-engineered potatoes and the irresistible flavor of the carefully architected McDonald's French (freedom?) frying oil?

Planning for the Local Impacts of Coal Facility Closure: Emerging Strategies in the U.S. West Sup... more Planning for the Local Impacts of Coal Facility Closure: Emerging Strategies in the U.S. West Supplemental Materials The three worksheets included in this file include supplemental data on (1) the power plants included in the study database, (2) socioeconomic characteristics of the communities where the plants are located, and (3) detailed results for each transition plan identified and analyzed in the current paper.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Copyright date is 2021.Bringing important new resea... more Includes bibliographical references and index.Copyright date is 2021.Bringing important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development. Featuring conceptual and empirical research from leading social scientists and compares, synthesizes, bridges, and traverses constraints on the coordination of energy impacts research, creating a new opportunity to understand North America's future energy needs.--Provided by publisher.From climax thinking toward a non-equilibrium approach to public good landscape change / by Kate Sherren -- Entangled impacts: human-animal relationships and energy development / by Seven Mattes and Cameron T. Whitley -- The need for social scientists in developing social life cycle assessment / by Emily Grubert -- Societal impacts of emerging grassroots energy communities: a capabilities based assessment / by Ali Adil -- Analysis of research methods examining shale oil and gas development / by Felix N. Fernando, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, and Eric C. Larson -- Identifying energy discourses across scales in Canada with Q methodology and survey research / by John R. Parkins and Kate Sherren -- A capitals approach to biorefinery siting using an integrative model / by Sanne Rijkhoff, Kelli Roemer, Natalie Martinkus, Tamara Laninga, and Season Hoard -- Cultural counterpoints for making sense of changing agricultural and energy landscapes: a Pennsylvania case study / by Weston M. Eaton, C. Clare Hinrichs, and Morey Burnham -- The wider array: a qualitative examination of the social and individual impacts of hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale / by Christopher W. Podeschi, Lisa Bailey-Davis, Heather Feldhaus, John Hintz, Ethan R. Minier, and Jacob Mowery -- Drilling impacts: a boom or bust for schools? A mixed methods analysis of public education in six oil and gas states / by Nathan Ratledge and Laura Zachary -- Effective community engagement in shale impacted communities in the U.S. / by Myra L. Moss, Nancy Bowen-Ellzey, and Thomas Murphy -- A framework for sustainable siting of wind energy facilities: economic, social, and environmental factors / by Ronald Meyers, Patrick Miller, Todd Schenk, Richard F. Hirsh, Achla Marathe, Anju Seth, Marc J. Stern, Jisoo Sim, and Sevda Ozturk Sari

This essay considers community resilience in an economic geography called the Third West. The Thi... more This essay considers community resilience in an economic geography called the Third West. The Third West describes those parts of the West that are deeply intertwined with production economies based on public lands resources and that refuse to “go away” despite widespread economic restructuring. Because this economic geography is one characterized by uncertainty and pressing transition, describing and addressing community resilience is a critical task for public lands stakeholders. A summary of lessons learned about how local institutions engaged with the impacts of the West’s recent oil and gas boom highlights the role of institutions in community resilience.

This paper estimates the amount and relative importance of new property tax revenue associated wi... more This paper estimates the amount and relative importance of new property tax revenue associated with renewable energy facilities in 17 rural counties in the contiguous, continental U.S. West. Most of study counties are areas with limited economic opportunities that stand to benefit from new utility infrastructure and also feature high quality renewable energy resources and/or potential for future new high voltage transmission development. The companion piece to this article titled, “County Economic Development at a Glance: A Single Measure of Opportunity,” describes and maps a county-level index of economic opportunity. Our study addresses the fact that although substantial effort has been spent on refining approaches to economic impact analysis for the benefit of promoting renewable energy development (see Reategui and Hendrickson, 2011), few (if any) studies have tackled the question of how benefits vary from place to place as a function of tax policies. The reality is that fiscal ...

Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2019

Unconventional oil and gas development frequently creates challenges for local government service... more Unconventional oil and gas development frequently creates challenges for local government service provision and production. This case study unites research on shared services and energy impacts through a qualitative analysis of a suite of shared services experiments pursued in the context of the boom in unconventional oil and gas development in northwestern North Dakota, United States. The article examines how the unique circumstances of energy boomtown dynamics in remote and rural areas shape the feasibility and form of shared services as solutions to acute service provision crises. The findings demonstrate that communities can deploy substantial innovation in response to the shocks of an energy boom, complicating assumptions about social disruption and community passiveness. However, the use of shared services also reinforced unrealistic projections about the duration and long-term benefits of the boom. In some instances, the use of shared services enabled extravagant projects wit...

Governing Shale Gas, 2018

Society & Natural Resources, 2021

Two innovative educational products aimed at improving the quality of human-subjects research in ... more Two innovative educational products aimed at improving the quality of human-subjects research in and around energy-impacted communities are introduced here. The educational materials include: (1) a self-paced online education course titled “Understanding and Addressing Research Fatigue in Rural Communities” and (2) an accompanying workbook for research planning titled “Engaging in Energy Communities: The Role of the Researcher.” We explain how two recent studies were instrumental in identifying the need for the online education course and the associated workbook. We conclude the paper with guidance on how to access these new resources, which we believe will be particularly useful for graduate students and early-career researchers. We invite feedback from users as well as from colleagues who may wish to use these educational materials.

Ecology and Society, 2021

Urgency and deliberateness are often at odds when executing conservation projects, especially as ... more Urgency and deliberateness are often at odds when executing conservation projects, especially as the scale and complexity of objectives increases. The pace of environmental degradation supports immediate and measurable action. However, best practices for adaptive governance and building resilient social-ecological systems call for more deliberate efforts and participatory processes, which can be slow. We explore conflicts between urgency and deliberateness and the potential for their reconciliation through a case study of the challenges of conserving native rangelands in North America's Northern Great Plains, an ecoregion targeted for global conservation initiatives. This region is undergoing a significant social-ecological transition, which underscores a need to rethink conservation strategies in light of the social-ecological system dynamics and potential future trajectories. Based on a structured narrative literature review process and iterative engagement with key regional stakeholders, we identify three interrelated factors critical to the system's future outcomes that illustrate system complexity as well as trade-offs between urgent and deliberate action and unilateral and multilateral approaches to conservation: (1) influences of land management on biodiversity, (2) economic restructuring and shifting land use priorities, and (3) changing climate and disturbance regimes. We identify key gaps in the literature for each factor and across the factors-an effort that informs our call for research and practice agendas that address uncertainty and complexity at regional scales through more inclusive and future-oriented approaches.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021

Despite the increasing concentration of wealth among high net worth (HNW) individuals and their r... more Despite the increasing concentration of wealth among high net worth (HNW) individuals and their rising influence as proprietors of natural resources worldwide, the discipline of geography has only recently begun to consider the interactions between the contemporary global super-rich and systems of environmental management. This article addresses a gap in the literature related to the social and ecological implications of ranches owned by the very wealthy. Drawing from a life course perspective, we complicate static representations of landowners and examine HNW ranchland ownership dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, an iconic conservation area in the U.S. West. Four stories about HNW ranches, compiled through a composite narrative approach, describe how ranch management practices and strategies play out over time and space. The result is a set of management trajectories linked to broader geographies of the super-rich where social–ecological outcomes related to an ability to ranch with, as opposed to for, money reinforces the connections between systems of wealth, elite interests, and land control. Our findings underscore a need for future scholarly efforts attuned to HNW ranch management trajectories as consequential drivers of change in rural areas and critical conservation areas.

Territory, Politics, Governance, 2021