Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the US West
Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the US West
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DOI：
10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.01.010
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
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影响因子：
10.2
通讯作者：
Rose, Jackson
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作者：
Haggerty, Julia H.;Haggerty, Mark N.;Rose, Jackson
这项研究从地方规划对美国西部燃煤电厂退役的反应的角度考虑了美国煤炭过渡的轮廓。该区域的工厂关闭影响到不同的地区，并在复杂、不协调的政策环境中发展。这项研究将经济地理学和社区规划学术知识提供的评估框架应用于12份规划文件的数据集，这些文件由经历煤炭设施关闭的当地社区撰写并为其编写。调查结果突显出，缺乏解决地方收入损失的有效战略，环境质量与长期经济韧性之间缺乏联系，以及对煤炭转型的接受程度各不相同。这些计划共同显示了地方一级过渡规划政策环境不协调、相互矛盾的负面后果，以及需要采取政策干预措施，以解决这一进程中的公平和效率问题。
This study considers the contours of the coal transition in the United States from the perspective of local planning responses to coal plant retirements in the U.S. West. Plant closures in the region affect a diverse set of geographies and have developed in a complex, uncoordinated policy environment. The study applies an assessment framework informed by economic geography and community planning scholarship to a dataset of 12 planning documents written by and for local communities experiencing coal facility closures. The findings highlight the absence of effective strategies to address lost local revenues, lack of connections between environmental quality and long-term economic resilience, and a range of levels of acceptance of the coal transition. Together, the plans demonstrate the negative consequences of an uncoordinated, contradictory policy environment for transition planning at the local level and the need for policy interventions to address issues of equity and efficiency in this process.