Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2024 Willingness to pay for solar adoption: Economic, ideological, motivational, and demographic factorsEnergy Economics.  136:107703-107703. 2024
2024 Pro-environmental, prosocial, pro-self, or does it depend? A more nuanced understanding of the motivations underlying residential solar panel adoptionEnergy Research and Social Science.  111:103481-103481. 2024
2022 Policy Options for Forest Disturbance-Adapted Species Management: Assessing the Rusty Blackbird in New York’s Adirondack Park Louis W. Hallstrom VAdirondack Journal of Environmental Studies.  25. 2022
2021 Willingness to pay for microgrids to enhance community resilienceEnergy Policy.  154:112248-112248. 2021
2021 Assessing and Implementing a Sustainable Holistic Planning SystemCase Studies in the Environment.  5. 2021
2020 Impact of a Motivational Intervention and Interactive Feedback on Electricity and Water Consumption: A Smart Housing Field ExperimentEnvironment and Behavior.  52:666-692. 2020
2020 Energy and Canada’s Polarized RegionsInroads The Canadian Journal of Opinion.  73-78. 2020
2018 Feedback and Behavioral Intervention in Residential Energy and Resource Use: a ReviewCurrent Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports.  5:116-126. 2018
2018 Multiple perspectives of the value of occupancy-based HVAC control systemsBuilding and Environment.  129:15-25. 2018
2018 The Policy-Regulatory Nexus in Canada's Energy Decision-MakingEnergy Regulation Quarterly.  6. 2018
2017 Multi-stakeholder microgrids for resilience and sustainabilityEnvironmental Hazards.  16:116-132. 2017
2016 Motivational Orientation Explains the Link between Political Ideology and Proenvironmental BehaviorEcopsychology.  8:239-249. 2016
2016 A Matter of Trust: The Role of Communities in Energy Decision-MakingEnergy Regulation Quarterly.  4. 2016
2015 Understanding Local Regulation of Fracking: A Spatial Econometric ApproachAgricultural and Resource Economics Review.  44:138-163. 2015
2014 Distributed (green) data centers: A new concept for energy, computing, and telecommunicationsEnergy for Sustainable Development: the journal of the international energy initiative.  19:83-91. 2014
2012 Policy options for the split incentive: Increasing energy efficiency for low-income rentersEnergy Policy.  48:506-514. 2012
2012 Policy options for the split incentive: Increasing energy efficiency for low-income renters.Energy Policy.  48:506-514. 2012
2011 Social Influence Processes in a Policy Network Simulation 2011
2010 Energy Burden and the Need for Integrated Low-Income Housing and Energy Policy.Poverty and Public Policy: a global journal of social security, income, aid, and welfare.  2:5-25. 2010
2008 Choosing the One for 101: A Review of Primary Textbooks for Introductory Political Science Survey CoursesJournal of Political Science Education.  4:253-259. 2008
Energy Hogs and Misers: Magnitude and Variability of Individuals’ Household Electricity ConsumptionSustainability.  15:4171-4171.

Book

Year Title
2013 Agitation with a smile: Howard Zinn's legacies and the future of activism 2013

Chapter

Year Title
2024 Canadian Public Opinion and the Green Transition 2024
2023 Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Public Confidence in Risk Decision-Making.  161-187. 2023
2018 Canada/U.S. Transboundary Energy Governance 2018
2018 Resilient Community Microgrids: Governance and Operational Challenges 2018
2013 Agitation with a Smile: A Framework for Reassessing the Contributions of Howard Zinn 2013
2013 Reassessing Zinn: Critical Reflections on a Scholar-Activist 2013
2010 The Structural Underpinnings of Policy Learning: A Classroom Policy Simulation.  253-277. 2010

Full Name

  • Stephen Bird