Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling /

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When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Gas wells > Hydraulic fracturing > Environmental aspects > United States.
Urban pollution > United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
Gaz naturel > Puits > Fracturation hydraulique > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Pollution urbaine > États-Unis.
Environnementalisme.
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Environmentalism
Urban pollution
United States
ENVIRONMENT/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
URBANISM/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Oil and gas development
  • A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas
  • Activists' concerns about health
  • A lack of competent guardians
  • Reluctant activists
  • Epistemic privilege
  • Performative environmentalism
  • (In)visibility in the gas field.

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