Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813587662 ISBN 13 : 9780813587660

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

ANTHONY E. LADD is a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813587662
• ISBN 13: 9780813587660
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Ladd Anthony E.
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