Towns in Transition: Kern County as a Case Study for Justice Considerations in Decarbonization

Towns in Transition: Kern County as a Case Study for Justice Considerations in Decarbonization
June 2018
Author(s)
Ada Statler
Publisher
Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences

Kern County is a region whose intense oil and gas development increasingly overlaps with renewable energy projects. This report seeks to answer the question: is the oil economy set to follow the downward trajectory of conventional resource economies, or is renewable energy ready to fill the void?