Title page for E-project-042805-143517

Project Type IQP

Submission date 2005-04-28

Authors
Jared H Bollinger, PH
Alexander Allen Naiman, HU
Phillip W Waldron, ME

URN E-project-042805-143517

Division Energy and Resources

Title Electric Power and Social Attitudes

Advisors
Addison, W A Bland, HU
Jiusto, J. Scott, ID

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
This project seeks to examine the miscommunications that arise in discussions concerning electricity deregulation and its environmental impact due to the participants' opposing discourses of environmental reality. Discourses dominant in the debate are analyzed, and interviews conducted with participants in the deregulation and environmental debate. The interview data is analyzed, with special emphasis on the different associational loads the concepts being debated must bear within each discourse. Recommendations are made on ways for participants to reach a mutually satisfactory consensus.

Files
EPaSA.pdf

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Project Type	IQP
Submission date	2005-04-28
Authors	Jared H Bollinger, PH Alexander Allen Naiman, HU Phillip W Waldron, ME
URN	E-project-042805-143517
Division	Energy and Resources
Title	Electric Power and Social Attitudes
Advisors	Addison, W A Bland, HU Jiusto, J. Scott, ID
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This project seeks to examine the miscommunications that arise in discussions concerning electricity deregulation and its environmental impact due to the participants' opposing discourses of environmental reality. Discourses dominant in the debate are analyzed, and interviews conducted with participants in the deregulation and environmental debate. The interview data is analyzed, with special emphasis on the different associational loads the concepts being debated must bear within each discourse. Recommendations are made on ways for participants to reach a mutually satisfactory consensus.
Files	EPaSA.pdf