Stephen Bird

Phone: (603) 862-2262
Office: Huddleston Hall, Room G07, Durham, NH 03824
Pronouns: He/Him/His

Courses Taught

  • PPOL 902: Strategy & Practice Pub Policy
  • PPOL 950: Washington DC Colloquium

Selected Publications

  • DeWaters, J. E., Zabel, I., Chatrchyan, A. M., Bird, S., & Powers, S. E. (2025). Building a Climate‐Literate Workforce: Impacts of a Comprehensive Public Utility Climate Change Education Program. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 32(4), 4847-4860. doi:10.1002/csr.3217

  • Badole, S. B., Bird, S., Heintzelman, M. D., & Legault, L. (2024). Willingness to pay for solar adoption: Economic, ideological, motivational, and demographic factors. Energy Economics, 136, 107703. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107703

  • Legault, L., Bird, S., & Heintzelman, M. D. (2024). Pro-environmental, prosocial, pro-self, or does it depend? A more nuanced understanding of the motivations underlying residential solar panel adoption. Energy Research & Social Science, 111, 103481. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103481

  • Bird, S. (2024). Canadian Public Opinion and the Green Transition. In D. L. VanNijnatten (Ed.), Environmental Policy and Politics: Moving the Green Transition Forward. Oxford University Press.

  • Bustamante, C., Bird, S., Legault, L., & Powers, S. E. (2023). Energy Hogs and Misers: Magnitude and Variability of Individuals’ Household Electricity Consumption. Sustainability, 15(5), 4171. doi:10.3390/su15054171

  • Larkin, P., Gattinger, M., & Bird, S. (2023). Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Public Confidence in Risk Decision-Making. In Democratizing Risk Governance (pp. 161-187). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24271-7_7

  • Hallstrom, L. W., & Bird, S. (2022). Policy Options for Forest Disturbance-Adapted Species Management: Assessing the Rusty Blackbird in New York’s Adirondack Park Louis W. Hallstrom V. Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, 25(1). Retrieved from https://digitalworks.union.edu/ajes/vol25/iss1/6

  • Hotaling, C., Bird, S., & Heintzelman, M. D. (2021). Willingness to pay for microgrids to enhance community resilience. Energy Policy, 154, 112248. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112248

  • Bird, S., & Hernández, D. (2012). Policy options for the split incentive: Increasing energy efficiency for low-income renters.. Energy Policy, 48, 506-514. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.053

  • Hernández, D., & Bird, S. (2010). Energy Burden and the Need for Integrated Low-Income Housing and Energy Policy.. Poverty Public Policy, 2(4), 5-25. doi:10.2202/1944-2858.1095

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