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Renewable Energy Features of Coachella Valley
The processes of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions provide a twenty-first century backdrop that accentuates the problems of adding to global warming through use of fossil fuels and coal. The UN agree...
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Socioeconomic and Urban Profile of Coachella Valley
The Coachella Valley exhibits a range of levels of income, wealth, education, and age structure. Its economic strengths lie in tourism, retirement, specialized agriculture, retail, and associated services. The...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy: Case Studies from Coachella Valley
Innovation and entrepreneurship are defined and contextualized through interviews with seven high level executives/owners of renewable energy firms and two important local city officials in the Coachella Valle...
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Introduction
Coachella Valley is introduced as an area of southern California with extensive renewable energy resources both in the Valley and in the surrounding areas to the north and west. It is chosen as the focus regio...
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Conceptual Models and Methods
This chapter introduces and explains the conceptual models for the book, the Integrated Policy Assessment for Local/Regional Renewal Energy Development (IPALRED) and Central Place Theory (CPT). IPALRED conside...
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Benchmark Comparisons of Leading Wind and Solar Areas with the Coachella Valley: Implications
Renewable energy development and entrepreneurship in the Coachella Valley, which are at fairly early stages, are compared to benchmark mature metropolitan areas for renewable energy in Texas and Maryland. The ...
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Prospects and Problems for Growth of Renewable Manufacturing, Assembly, and Operations in Coachella Valley
The problems and opportunities for renewable development in Coachella Valley are discussed. Findings are compared to the model of Integrated Policy assessment of Local and Regional Renewable Development (IPALR...
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The Roles and Policies of Governments
The policies of governments leading to planning and implementation are crucial to the success of ICT initiatives and improvement of ICT usage and productivity in nations and sub-national units in particular st...
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United States Digital Divide
The United States is a technology powerhouse and has the largest global economy, although its ICT utilization does not rank it in the top 15 worldwide. Our U.S. conceptual model posits that fourteen independen...
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Introduction
Global change is rapid and often transformational for economies and societies.
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Theoretical Model
The concept of digital divide has been present since the 1980s and gained impetus in the 1990s with the advent of widespread web use. A milestone in recognizing it was the publication of a series of reports fr...
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China’s Digital Divide
China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at exponential rates. During the study period of 2006–2009, substantial regional differences existed in China in ICT ...
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Comparisons of Countries
The intra-national digital divides differ among countries. Comparisons are made between the study nations of China, India, Japan, and the United States to determine what correlates of ICTs are common and which...
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Japan’s Digital Divide
Japan is the world’s third largest economy and an ICT leading nation. The Japanese conceptual model posits that twelve independent factors influence ten technology utilization factors, with several unique vari...
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The Future of the Digital Divide
The major book findings are summarized, including that nations are distinctive in the structure of their internal digital divides and that the most important common correlates of ICT utilization at the state-l...
