Distributed Generation of Electricity: The Role
of Academic Research and Advice in California’s “Clean DG” Policy Network |
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Authors: | Juliann Emmons Allison |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-1008, USA |
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Abstract: | Deregulation and the combined threats of energy crises and global warming concern nations around the world, yet these issues
continue to be addressed more directly by domestic regulatory systems than by international institutions. The present analyses
of the integration of distributed sources of power generation (DG) into California’s electric utility system suggests that
domestic environmental dilemmas with international repercussions provide an obvious entrée for global environmental policy
specialists into the practice of environmental policy-making and law. Here I review current scholarship on policy networks
that illuminates the contributions that technical and policy experts can make to such networks surrounding environmental issues.
I then introduce the key members of California’s “clean DG” policy network that emphasizes the role of academic experts in
this influential political system, and discuss how my own research has impacted the development of the state’s DG policy.
I conclude that scholars are well positioned to observe and engage domestic and international environmental policy networks,
and thereby also to influence environmental politics and law. |
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Keywords: | acid rain advocacy networks air quality california energy policy global warming policy networks |
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