Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0813587662 ISBN 13: 9780813587660

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2018

Riassunto

While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more commonly known as “fracking”—on local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions.  Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena.  

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ANTHONY E. LADD is a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

 

ANTHONY E. LADD is a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813587662
• ISBN 13: 9780813587660
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 303
• Redattore: Ladd Anthony E.
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