John Whitton is the Director of UCLan Energy and a Co-Director of the Research Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change at the University of Central Lancashire, UKMatthew Cotton is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Environment Department at the University of York, UKIoan M. Charnley-Parry is a post-doctoral research associate within UCLan Energy and the Research Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change at the University of Central Lancashire, UKKathryn Brasier is an Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, USA

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Governing Shale GasJohn Whitton, Matthew Cotton, Kathy Brasier, Ioan Charnley-ParryChapter 2 - Regulating Unconventional Shale Gas Development in the United States: Diverging Priorities, Overlapping Jurisdictions, and Asymmetrical Data Access Beth Kinne Chapter 3 - A complex adaptive system or just a tangled mess? Property rights and shale gas governance in Australia and the US Jeffrey B. Jacquet, Katherine Witt, William Rifkin, Julia H. HaggertyChapter 4 – Governing Unconventional Legacies from the Coalbed Methane Boom in WyomingKathryn Bills Walsh, Julia H. HaggertyChapter 5 - Governing Shale Gas in Germany Annette Elisabeth Töller, Michael BöcherChapter 6 - Experimental regulatory approaches for unconventional gas: the case of urban drilling and local government authority in Texas Matthew Fry, Christian BrannstromChapter 7 - The Role of Multi-State River Basin Commissions in Shale Gas Governance Systems: A Comparative analysis of the Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin Commissions in the Marcellus Shale RegionGrace Wildermuth, John Dzwonczyk, Kathy BrasierChapter 8 - Unlikely allies against fracking networks of resistance against shale gas development in PolandAleksandra Lis, Agata StasikChapter 9 - Community representations of unconventional gas development in Australia, Canada, and the United States, and their effect on social licence Darrick Evensen, Hanabeth LukeChapter 10 - Evidence-based and participatory processes is support of shale gas policy development in South Africa Schreiner, G.O., De Jager, M.J., Snyman-Van der Walt, L., Dludla, A., Lochner, P.A., Wright, J. G., Scholes, R.J., Atkinson, D., Hardcastle, P., Kotze, H., Esterhuyse, S.Chapter 11 - Campus Organizing towards the Democratization of Shale Oil and Gas Governance in Higher Education Sarah T. Romano, Wendy HighbyChapter 12 - Devolved Governance & Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs: An Example from the Bakken Kristin K. Smith, Julia H. HaggertyChapter 13 - Fracking Communities, Fractured Communication: Information transfer and transparency of the energy industry Peggy Petrzelka, Colter Ellis, Douglas Jackson Smith, Gene Theodori Chapter 14 - Shale Gas Governance in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe: Public Participation and the role of Social JusticeJohn Whitton, Ioan Charnley-ParryChapter 15 - Shale gas development in England: a tale of two mineral planning authorities Imogen Rattle, Tudor Baker, James Van AlstineChapter 16 - Community understanding of risk from fracking in the UK and Poland: How democracy- and justice-based concerns amplify risk perceptionsAnna Szolucha Chapter 17 - Seeking common ground in contested energy technology landscapes: Insights from a Q Methodology study Matthew Dairon, John R. Parkins and Kate SherrenChapter 18 - Scientized and sanitized: Shale gas in the context of New Brunswick’s political history Kelly Bronson and Tom Beckley

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