Patrick Field is managing director at the Consensus Building Institute and associate director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program.Tushar Kansal is a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute with several years of experience as a facilitator, mediator and trainer in collaborative problem solving and negotiation within and across organizations. Catherine Morris is a senior mediator at the Consensus Building Institute. She has more than 15 years of experience as a mediator and consensus builder and over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental regulation and policy. Stacie Smith is a senior mediator and director of workable peace at the Consensus Building Institute.

• Introduction: The Complexity and Conflicts of Energy in the US Landscape; 1. Land-Based Wind Energy Siting: The Not-So-Silent Wind; 2. Nuclear Waste Siting: Getting Good People to Accept the Bad; 3. Gas and Oil and Unconventional Shale: The New, Old Frontier; 4. The Linear Challenge: Transmission and Natural Gas Pipelines; Conclusions and Recommendations; Index.

The book does an incredible job of distilling complex land use conflicts associated with energy production into succinct summaries and well-formulated recommendations that are ready to be picked up by any conflict resolution professional working in land use planning and/or energy facility siting.—Alex Renirie and Todd Jarvis, Mediate

Patrick Field is managing director at the Consensus Building Institute and associate director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program.Tushar Kansal is a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute with several years of experience as a facilitator, mediator and trainer in collaborative problem solving and negotiation within and across organizations. Catherine Morris is a senior mediator at the Consensus Building Institute. She has more than 15 years of experience as a mediator and consensus builder and over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental regulation and policy. Stacie Smith is a senior mediator and director of workable peace at the Consensus Building Institute.

• Introduction: The Complexity and Conflicts of Energy in the US Landscape; 1. Land-Based Wind Energy Siting: The Not-So-Silent Wind; 2. Nuclear Waste Siting: Getting Good People to Accept the Bad; 3. Gas and Oil and Unconventional Shale: The New, Old Frontier; 4. The Linear Challenge: Transmission and Natural Gas Pipelines; Conclusions and Recommendations; Index.

The book does an incredible job of distilling complex land use conflicts associated with energy production into succinct summaries and well-formulated recommendations that are ready to be picked up by any conflict resolution professional working in land use planning and/or energy facility siting.—Alex Renirie and Todd Jarvis, Mediate

Patrick Field is managing director at the Consensus Building Institute and associate director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program.Tushar Kansal is a senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute with several years of experience as a facilitator, mediator and trainer in collaborative problem solving and negotiation within and across organizations. Catherine Morris is a senior mediator at the Consensus Building Institute. She has more than 15 years of experience as a mediator and consensus builder and over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental regulation and policy. Stacie Smith is a senior mediator and director of workable peace at the Consensus Building Institute.

• Introduction: The Complexity and Conflicts of Energy in the US Landscape; 1. Land-Based Wind Energy Siting: The Not-So-Silent Wind; 2. Nuclear Waste Siting: Getting Good People to Accept the Bad; 3. Gas and Oil and Unconventional Shale: The New, Old Frontier; 4. The Linear Challenge: Transmission and Natural Gas Pipelines; Conclusions and Recommendations; Index.

The book does an incredible job of distilling complex land use conflicts associated with energy production into succinct summaries and well-formulated recommendations that are ready to be picked up by any conflict resolution professional working in land use planning and/or energy facility siting.—Alex Renirie and Todd Jarvis, Mediate