| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) |
| Series |
Urban and industrial environments |
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Urban and industrial environments.
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| Contents |
Oil and gas development -- A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas -- Activists' concerns about health -- A lack of competent guardians -- Reluctant activists -- Epistemic privilege -- Performative environmentalism -- (In)visibility in the gas field |
| Summary |
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with homes, schools, hospitals, parks, and businesses. Gullion focuses on fracking in the Barnett Shale, the natural-gas--rich geological formation under the Dallas--Fort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residents -- for the most part educated, middle class, and politically conservative -- who became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking. --Publisher |
| Analysis |
ENVIRONMENT/General |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology |
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URBANISM/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Urban pollution -- United States
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Environmentalism.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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urban environments.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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Environmentalism
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban pollution
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262329798 |
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0262329794 |
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9780262329804 |
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0262329808 |
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