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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779054003321

Autore

McNeil Bryan T

Titolo

Combating mountaintop removal [[electronic resource] ] : new directions in the fight against big coal / / Bryan T. McNeil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-58284-8

9786613895295

0-252-09346-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

622/.292

Soggetti

Mountaintop removal mining - Appalachian Region

Coal mines and mining - Environmental aspects - Appalachian Region

Landscape protection - Appalachian Region - Citizen participation

Community activists - Appalachian Region

Environmentalists - Appalachian Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Welcome to coal river -- Fighting back -- again -- What are we fighting for? -- Strained solidarities -- The chase -- Whose development is it? -- Gender, solidarity, and symbolic capital -- Commons environmentalism and community activism.

Sommario/riassunto

Critically examining the fierce conflicts over an intense and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining, 'Combating Mountaintop Removal' documents the changing relationships among the coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks.