Fractured Communities

Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-23
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNature, Society, and Culture
Antal sidor328
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813587660

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Preface ixIntroduction: Energy Matters 1Anthony E. Ladd1 Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio’s Utica Shale Region 38Sherry Cable2 This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities 60Ion Bogdan Vasi3 Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region 85Carmel E. Price and James N. Maples4 Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh 107Suzanne Staggenborg5 Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region 128Cameron Thomas Whitley6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale 149Anthony E. Ladd7 Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma’s Shale Plays 173Ta mara L. Mix and Da kota K. T. Raynes8 Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region 198Stephanie A. Malin, Stacia S. Ryder, and Peter M. Hall9 Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State 224Patricia Widener10 Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon 248Hilary Boudet, Brittany Gaustad, and Trang TranConclusion 271Anthony E. LaddAcknowledgments 287Notes on Contributors 291Index 297

“Fractured Communities is a rigorous, innovative, and informative piece of work, consisting of an impressive list of authors and exceptional scholarship.” - Thomas Shriver (North Carolina State University) "This well-crafted collection of chapters by a number of distinguished researchers addresses some of the most pressing environmental and social problems of our day. Fractured Communities is required reading for those interested in the impacts of energy development on the environment and communities." - Richard York (director and professor of environmental studies, University of Oregon) "Weekly Book List, April 20, 2018" by Nina Ayoub (Chronicle of Higher Education) "Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena." (Environmental Sociology Newsletter)