(Selected publications; please see CV for the full list)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Renewable energy development: Technology acceptance and policy support
2025. Rural-urban divide in support for renewable energy policy: Evidence from Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard Ballot Initiative in 2020. Forthcoming in Environmental Politics. (Replication)
2025. "Rural exploitation" in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas. Energy Research & Social Science, 119: 103837. (Pre-Study) (Replication)
2023. Rural opposition to landscape change from solar energy: Explaining the diffusion of setback restrictions on solar farms across South Korean counties. Energy Research & Social Science, 99: 103073. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes, Energy Daily News, and the Next Web)
2023. Wind turbines as new smokestacks: Preserving ruralness and restrictive land-use ordinances across U.S. counties. PLOS ONE, 18(12): e0294563. (Replication)
2023. Causal effects of place, people, and process on rooftop solar adoption through Bayesian Inference. Energy, 285: 129510.
Renewable energy & climate change nexus
2025. Same policy, different dreams: Explaining the variation in local net-zero policy stringency in South Korea. Forthcoming in Climate Policy. (Replication)
2025. Who supports climate mitigation through increasing renewable energy surcharge? Evidence from an online survey in South Korea. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Forthcoming. (Pre-study) (Replication)
2022. Have renewable energy leaders announced aggressive emission reduction goals? Examining the variations in the stringency of country-level net-zero emission pledges. PLOS Climate, 1(11): e0000094. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes, The Regulatory Review, Skeptical Science, and Reputation)
Climate change politics & policy
2025. Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities' membership in Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014-2024. Forthcoming in Policy Sciences. (Replication)
2024. Stock markets, corporate climate pledges, and the Science-Based Target Initiative. npj Climate Action, 3: 69. (Replication) (Featured in The Regulatory Review)
2022. Signaling climate resilience to municipal bond markets: Does membership in adaptation-focused voluntary clubs affect bond rating? Climatic Change, 171(9): 1-19. (Replication) (Featured in Skeptical Science)
2022. Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European Countries, 1996-2014. Review of Policy Research, 39(5): 654-673. (Replication)
Working Papers
My club runneth over: Congestion, embedded clubs, and the UN Global Compact
Climate beliefs, not problem visibility, drive rural opposition to wind energy projects
Developer trust and community opposition to renewable energy projects
Designing public dialogue on power grid development for a just renewable energy transition
“Let me finish!”—Verbal interruptions and power dynamics among South Korean legislators
The door open, the climb steep: Drivers of joining and leveraging ICELI across South Korean localities
Against all odds: How local energy communities navigate centralized energy regimes through community wealth building