Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions /
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-mor...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Energy Matters
- 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica Shale Region
- 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities
- 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region
- 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh
- 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region
- 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale
- 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma's Shale Plays
- 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region
- 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State
- 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon
- Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index