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The Energy Economy
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America’s economic development is a top public policy priority. A lack of federal consensus on an overall economic development strategy in Washington, DC has been filled in by regions and states across the nation. Successful local and state economic development strategies center around basic or building block strategies and more advanced five drivers strategies centering on specific industry sectors. Most communities adopt land use regulations for zoning, annexation, and eminent domain to provide sites for development. Most communities also address workforce needs of companies, use tax policies to retain or attract companies, and address larger quality of life issues to keep those companies and their workforce in town once they get them. More successful regions and states go beyond the basic building block strategies and dig deep into targeted, high-growth industry clusters such as energy, technology, global companies, advanced services, and manufacturing.
This book is a discussion about the most successful of the five drivers of economic development-energy. This book focuses on the creation of an energy led economic development strategy. It includes a basic discussion of sources of energy and overall energy policy, but the focus is on how the discoveries of sources of energy can spur massive economic growth and how the cost and availability of reliable sources of energy impact economic success as well.
As with my first book, Economic Development from the State and Local Perspective, The Energy Economy is a practical discussion of how regions and states are development successful economies around the energy sec- tor. This book also acknowledges the multi-disciplinary approach to economic development through both the topic selection and the case study approach. No one profession owns economic development. Government workers with public administration degrees, lawyers, architects, economists, developers, bankers, and others all make up the economic development profession. Also, this book takes an “all energy is good” perspective. Renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy can help build a successful regional economic development strategy.
DaviD J. Robinson  - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978–1–137–47169–7
NONE
The Energy Economy
Management
English
2015
1-273
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