Below you will find profiles of conservation psychology researchers and practitioners. If your research is relevant to conservation psychology and you would like your profile to be added below, please contact Carol Saunders at csaunders@antioch.edu
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/)
