Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / / Jessica Smartt Gullion

• Autore: Gullion Jessica Smartt <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 622/.3381
• Soggetto topico: Gas wells - Hydraulic fracturing - Environmental aspects - United States; Urban pollution - United States; Environmentalism; Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fracking the neighborhood
• ISBN: 0-262-32979-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822344603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Urban and industrial environments.