Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions, Paperback / softback Book

Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions Paperback / softback

Edited by Anthony E. Ladd

Part of the Nature, Society, and Culture series

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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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