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This chapter provides an overview and introduction to the book, describing its purpose, and the “story” to be told in the subsequent chapters. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of climate change, followed by a short review of issues pertaining to the environmental hazards’ consequences of current carbon-based technologies as drivers of alternative energy technology. The discussion then turns to the background to alternative energy development in the four case study states, which will include state energy profiles, renewable energy capacity, and emerging state renewable energy policies. The chapter will conclude with a brief summary of the alternative explanations for individuals’ particular opinions about alternative energy technologies that will be investigated in the chapters that follow.
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Pierce, J.C., Steel, B.S. (2017). Tradeoffs. In: Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U.S. West . Environmental Challenges and Solutions, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53414-5_1
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