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Gullion Jessica Smartt <1972-> |
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Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / / Jessica Smartt Gullion |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Collana |
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Urban and Industrial Environments |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gas wells - Hydraulic fracturing - Environmental aspects - United States |
Urban pollution - United States |
Environmentalism |
Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Oil and Gas Development; 2 A Brief Overview of Natural Gas Drilling in Texas; 3 Activists' Concerns about Health; 4 A Lack of Competent Guardians; 5 Reluctant Activists; 6 Epistemic Privilege; 7 Performative Environmentalism; 8 (In)Visibility in the Gas Field; References; Index; Series List |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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