In this Book
- Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction. Energy Matters
- pp. 1-37
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 287-290
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 291-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813587691
Related ISBN(s)
9780813587677, 9780813587684, 9780813594248
MARC Record
OCLC
987437594
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2018-03-04
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018