Combating Mountaintop Removal : New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal /

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"Critically examining the fierce conflicts over an intense and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining, [this book] documents the changing relationships among te coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their br...

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Autor principal: McNeil, Bryan T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mountaintop removal mining.
Landscape protection > Citizen participation.
Environmentalists.
Community activists.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Environmentalists > Appalachian Region.
Community activists > Appalachian Region.
Landscape protection > Appalachian Region > Citizen participation.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects > Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining > Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welcome to coal river
  • Fighting back, again
  • What are we fighting for?
  • Strained solidarities
  • The chase
  • Whose development is it?
  • Gender, solidarity, and symbolic capital
  • Commons environmentalism and community activism
  • Conclusion: John Henry, efficiency, and community.

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