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Decentralizing Energy Decisions

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Decentralizing Energy Decisions:
The Rebirth of Community Power

Ellis Cose

Decision making about energy has come to epitomize a larger struggle taking place in U.S. society--a struggle for control over individual destiny, economic resources, and the shaping of society itself. A host of ideologies has been spawned, new federalism and new populism among them. Many activist groups argue that making decisions about resources can be a first step in helping people gain control of their lives.

Focusing on the issues surrounding the control of energy and discussing the limitations and advantages of dealing with the energy problem at the local level, the author examines the proposition that granting control over decision making to cities, states, or regions rather than to the federal government can positively affect public confidence, as well as result in more efficient energy planning. Mr. Cose discusses the various interpretations of decentralization; the relationship between decentralization and small-scale technologies; the overlapping and opposing interests of governments, consumers, and corporations; and the extent to which local governments and political structures are prepared to deal with an issue that is traditionally outside of their sphere.

The author supports his analysis by looking at specific municipal governments and their attempts, successes, and failures to respond to the energy crisis. He also analyzes the particular problems of community projects. Throughout the book he comments on the effect that Reagan administration policies have had on decision making about energy at all levels of government nationwide.

Previously a journalist with the Chicago Sun Times, the Detroit Free Press, and USA Today, Mr. Cose holds an M .A. in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University and is currently president of the Institute for Journalism Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Energy and the Urban Crisis and the editor of Energy and Equity: Some Social Concerns.

Decentralizing Energy Decisions

The Rebirth of Community Power

Ellis Cose

First published 1983 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Cose, Ellis.
Decentralizing energy decisions.
(A Westview replica edition)
1. Energy policy--United States--Citizen participation.
2. Decentralization in government--United States. 3. Local
government--United States. I. Title.
HD9502.U52C6839 1983 333.79'0973 83-14686

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01713-2(hbk)

Contents

1. CHAPTER 1
   THE NEW REALITY
2. CHAPTER 2
   ENERGY ACTIONS
3. CHAPTER 3
   CITIES AND CRISES
4. CHAPTER 4
   REDISTRIBUTING RESPONSIBILITY
5. CHAPTER 5
   NATIONAL WELFARE
6. CHAPTER 6
   PRIVATE INTERESTS
7. CHAPTER 7
   CITIES, STATES, AND CONFLICT
8. CHAPTER 8
   EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
9. CHAPTER 9
   BEYOND BEGINNINGS

1. CHAPTER 1
   THE NEW REALITY
2. CHAPTER 2
   ENERGY ACTIONS
3. CHAPTER 3
   CITIES AND CRISES
4. CHAPTER 4
   REDISTRIBUTING RESPONSIBILITY
5. CHAPTER 5
   NATIONAL WELFARE
6. CHAPTER 6
   PRIVATE INTERESTS
7. CHAPTER 7
   CITIES, STATES, AND CONFLICT
8. CHAPTER 8
   EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
9. CHAPTER 9
   BEYOND BEGINNINGS

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

A book is nearly always a group effort. Decentralizing Energy Decisions is no exception. I am indebted first of all to the Ford Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences. Without financial support from the above-mentioned foundations, this project never would have been undertaken. Without the institutional home provided by the National Research Council, it could not have been completed.

The list of individuals essential to this project is much too long to reproduce here. None, however, were more critical than the scores of local officials, in cities across the nation, who gave freely of their time and intellectual resources.

The members of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Behavioral and Social Aspects of Energy Consumption were another invaluable intellectual resource. Thomas Wilbanks, a member of that committee and associate director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was especially helpful, balancing the difficult roles of critic, supporter, and friend. Paul Stern, staff director for the committee, and Richard Hofrichter, his research associate, played the same balancing act and have my gratitude as a result.

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