Willett Kempton
Associate Professor and Senior Policy Scientist
College of Marine and Earth Studies
University of Delaware
Robinson Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302)831-0049
Fax: (302)831-6838
Email: willett@udel.edu
Website: www.ocean.udel.edu/cms/wkempton/
Publications related to Conservation Psychology:
Firestone, J. & Kempton, W. (in press). Public opinion about large offshore wind power: Underlying factors. Energy Policy. (Full article posted on Energy Policy web site, in print by approximately October 2007).
Iyer. Kempton, W. & Payne, C.(2006). Comparison Groups on bills: automated, personalized energy information. Energy and Buildings, 38(8), 988-996.
Kempton, W., Firestone, J., Lilley, J., Rouleau, T., & Whitaker, P. (2005). The offshore wind power debate: Views from Cape Cod. Coastal Management Journal, 33(2), 119-149.
Tesch, D., & Kempton, W. (2004). Who is an environmentalist? The polysemy of environmentalist terms and correlated environmental actions. Journal of Ecological Anthropoology, 8, 67-83.
Hernandez, A. & Kempton, W. (2003). Changes in fisheries management in Mexico: Effects of increasing scientific input and public participation. Ocean and Coastal Management, 46, 507–526.
Brechin, S., & Kempton, W. (2003) Global environmentalism: A challenge to the post-materialist thesis? In C.R. Humphrey, T.L. Lewis, & F.H. Buttel (Eds.), Energy, and Society: Exemplary Works (pp 326-344). Bellmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.
Kempton, W., & Holland (2003) Identity and Sustained Environmental Practice. In S. Clayton & S. Opotow, Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature (317-341). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kempton, W. (2001). Cognitive anthropology and the environment. In C. Crumley (Ed.), New directions in anthropology & environment (pp. 49-71). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Kempton, W., Holland, D.C., Bunting-Howarth, K., Hannan, E., & Payne, C. (2001) Local Environmental Groups: A Systematic Enumeration in Two Geographical Areas. Rural Sociology, 66(4), 557-578.
Kempton, W., & Falk, J. (2000). Cultural Models of Pfiesteria. Coastal Management, 28(4), 273-285.
Kitchell, A., Kempton, W., & Hannon, E. (2000) Identity Through Stories: Story Structure and Function in Two Environmental Groups. Human Organization 59(1), 96-105.
Kitchell, A., Kempton, W., Holland, D. & Tesch, D. (2000) Identities and Actions within Environmental Groups. Human Ecology Review 7(2),1-20.
Wilhite, H., Shove, E., Lutzenhiser, L., & Kempton, W. (2000) The legacy of twenty years of energy demand management: We know a little more about individual behavior but next to nothing about demand. In E. Jochem, J. Sathaye, & D. Bouille (Eds.) Society, Behaviour and Climate Change Mitigation. Advances In Global Change Research series, (109-126) Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Brechin, S., & Kempton, W. (1997) Beyond Postmaterialist Values: National versus Individual Explanations of Global Environmentalism (Response to Kidd and Lee). Social Science Quarterly 78(1),16-20.
Kempton, W., & Payne, C. (1997). Cultural and social evolutionary determinants of consumption. In P. C. Stern, T. Dietz, V. W. Ruttan, R. H. Socolow, & J. L. Sweeney (Eds.), Environmentally significant consumption: Research directions (pp. 116-123). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Kempton, W. (1997) How the Public Views Climate Change. Environment 39(9), 12-21. To be reprinted 1998 in Dorothy U. Seyler (ed), Read, Reason, Write, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill College Divison.
Kempton, W., Baster, J. S., & Hartley, J. (1995). Environmental values in American culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Paperback edition, 1996, with minor corrections.
Brechin, S. & Kempton, W. (1994) Global Environmentalism: A Challenge to the Postmaterialism Thesis? Social Science Quarterly 75(2), 245-269. (1997) reprinted in Social Statistics in a Diverse Society, first edition, Pine Forge Press.
Kempton, W. & Layne, L. (1994) The Consumer's Energy Analysis Environment. Energy Policy 22: 857-866. Invited for special issue, "Markets for energy efficiency."
Kempton, W. & Lutzenhiser, L. (Eds) (1992). Air conditioning: The interplay of technology, culture, and comfort. Special issue of Energy and Buildings, 18(3-4).
Kempton, W. & Neiman, M. (1987). Energy Efficiency: Perspectives on Individual Behavior. Washington, D.C: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
Research Interests:
Offshore wind power -- design, policy, public opposition(http://www.ocean.udel.edu/windpower/)
Communicating the urgency of climate change to the public
Local environmental groups and environmental identity
Using electric vehicles for grid support and backup for large-scale renewable energy(http://www.udel.edu/V2G/)
