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Who Owns Appalachia? - Landownership and Its Impact (Paperback)
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Who Owns Appalachia? - Landownership and Its Impact (Paperback)
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Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land
and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the
United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in
the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and
mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of
strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain
region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of
the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and
shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship
between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the
region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this
survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its
coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region
-- Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina,
and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80
counties, and within those counties field workers documented the
ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20
million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally
significant for its systematic investigation of the relations
between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities.
Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and
correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The
findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region
-- local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax
revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic
development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of
farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most
evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from
corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward
greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion
of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new
mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will
be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and
its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for
social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance
for the entire nation.
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