Douglas Bessette

867 total citations
32 papers, 594 citations indexed

About

Douglas Bessette is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Pollution and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Bessette has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 594 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Pollution and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Douglas Bessette's work include Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (17 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 papers). Douglas Bessette is often cited by papers focused on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (17 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 papers). Douglas Bessette collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Douglas Bessette's co-authors include Sarah Mills, Joseph Árvai, Victoria Campbell-Árvai, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin L. Arola, Joshua M. Pearce, Valoree S. Gagnon, H. Jeff Smith, Laura Schmitt Olabisi and Robyn S. Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Energy Policy and Solar Energy.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Bessette

32 papers receiving 566 citations

Peers

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Susanne Hanger-Kopp Austria

Naama Teschner Israel

Philippa Roddis United Kingdom

Franziska Wolf Germany

Greg Poelzer Canada

Stewart Fast Canada

Nick Hacking United Kingdom

Keith Williges Austria

Marina Frolova Spain

Atte Harjanne Finland

Susanne Hanger-Kopp Austria

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Countries citing papers authored by Douglas Bessette

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Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2025). Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development. Energy Research & Social Science. 127. 104338–104338. 1 indexed citations

Rand, Joseph, et al.. (2025). More power to them: U.S. large-scale solar neighbors' support for additional solar. 4. 1 indexed citations

Hartmann, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms. Energy Research & Social Science. 119. 103848–103848. 3 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2024). Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan. Energy Research & Social Science. 113. 103569–103569. 7 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2024). Electricity access empowers women through expansion of economic, physical, and mental spaces in Zambia. Energy Research & Social Science. 116. 103687–103687. 7 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2023). Factors That Drive Resident Support for Planned Rain Gardens in Urban Neighborhoods. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2023). Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 108. 103375–103375. 28 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2022). Battery Electric Tractors: Small-Scale Organic Growers’ Preferences, Perceptions, and Concerns. Energies. 15(22). 8648–8648. 10 indexed citations

Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2022). Misalignment of perceptions with records and resources for responding to climate change risk. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 2 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2022). All's fair in love and WAR: The conduct of wind acceptance research (WAR) in the United States and Canada. Energy Research & Social Science. 88. 102514–102514. 9 indexed citations

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Gunn, Grant, Volodymyr V. Tarabara, Michelle Rutty, Douglas Bessette, & Robert B. Richardson. (2021). Roughness and storage capacity of freshwater ice in the Straits of Mackinac. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 186. 103278–103278. 3 indexed citations

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Schelly, Chelsea, Valoree S. Gagnon, Kristin L. Arola, et al.. (2020). The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health. Energy Research & Social Science. 68. 101661–101661. 99 indexed citations

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Schelly, Chelsea, Douglas Bessette, Valoree S. Gagnon, et al.. (2020). Energy policy for energy sovereignty: Can policy tools enhance energy sovereignty?. Solar Energy. 205. 109–112. 50 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas & Sarah Mills. (2020). Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development. Energy Research & Social Science. 72. 101873–101873. 46 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2019). An online decision support tool to evaluate ecological weed management strategies. Weed Science. 67(4). 463–473. 7 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas, Robyn S. Wilson, & Joseph Árvai. (2019). Do people disagree with themselves? Exploring the internal consistency of complex, unfamiliar, and risky decisions. Journal of Risk Research. 24(5). 593–605. 17 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas & Joseph Árvai. (2018). Engaging attribute tradeoffs in clean energy portfolio development. Energy Policy. 115. 221–229. 18 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas, et al.. (2017). Building a Values‐Informed Mental Model for New Orleans Climate Risk Management. Risk Analysis. 37(10). 1993–2004. 39 indexed citations

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Bessette, Douglas, Victoria Campbell-Árvai, & Joseph Árvai. (2015). Expanding the Reach of Participatory Risk Management: Testing an Online Decision‐Aiding Framework for Informing Internally Consistent Choices. Risk Analysis. 36(5). 992–1005. 29 indexed citations

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Árvai, Joseph, Robin Gregory, Douglas Bessette, & Victoria Campbell-Árvai. (2012). Decision support for developing energy strategies. 28(4). 43–52. 14 indexed citations

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