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Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions (Nature, Society, and Culture) - Softcover

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9780813587660: Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions (Nature, Society, and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0813587662 ISBN 13: 9780813587660
Publisher: 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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About the Author

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

 

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813587662
ISBN 13 
9780813587660
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328
Editor
Ladd Anthony E.