Fractured Communities - Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Nature, Society, and Culture
Release date:	March 2018
Editors:	Anthony E. Ladd
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-8766-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Fossil fuel technologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-8766-2
Barcode:	9780813587660

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