Citizen involvement in community energy planning. [Monograph]

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5400911

Hughes, K; Pape, B

Instead of directly providing the poor, elderly, and handicapped with services using outside resources, the new federalism requires a move toward local self-sufficiency in which citizens must engage in local political dialogue and confrontation. The community-development method outlined in this report has four basic components: broad citizen participation, realistic goal formation, locally developed planning and implementation, and evaluation of progress. When applied to energy, the method has three goals: (1) to build coalitions and encourage the poor to participate in energy decision making; (2) to allow citizen participation in planning local energy strategies by applying resource assessment and organizing skills; and (3) to improve the community's energy balance of payments situation through education. This handbook provides guidelines for organizing community resource mobilization and public policy making. 25 references, 1 table.

• OSTI ID: 5400911
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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& Utilization-- Education & Public Relations-- (1980-)
COMMUNITIES
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ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY POLICY
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LOW INCOME GROUPS
MINORITY GROUPS
PLANNING
POPULATIONS
PUBLIC POLICY