Who Owns Appalachia? : Landownership and Its Impact /

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Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggrava...

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Détails bibliographiques
Collectivité auteur: Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], 1983.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social conditions.
Real property tax.
Mineral industries > Taxation.
Local finance.
Land use, Rural.
Land tenure.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Local finance > Appalachian Region.
Real property tax > Appalachian Region.
Mineral industries > Taxation > Appalachian Region.
Land tenure > Appalachian Region.
Land use, Rural > Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this co.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780813161938

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