Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
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| Title: | Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Anthony E. Ladd |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Hydraulic fracturing--Risk assessment--United States, Hydraulic fracturing--Social aspects--United States, Petroleum industry and trade--United States, Shale gas industry--United States |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / General, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780813587677 9780813587684 9780813587691 |
