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Book SynopsisThis book explores the power struggles over natural resources and expounds on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. Essays included in the volume survey the factors and the influence they have in framing and resolving environmental issues such as fracking, shared waters, and environmental threats.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Environmental Studies of Natural Resources by Sebahattin Ziyanak, Dian Jordan, and Mehmet Soyer Chapter 1: Civil Disobedience and Anti-Fracking Activism: Sandra Steingraber’s Ironic Standpoint of Praxis by Mollie Murphy Chapter 2: A Power Struggle over Fracking in Denton, Texas by Mehmet Soyer and Sebahattin Ziyanak Chapter 3: Theories of Environmental Social Problems: A Synthesis of News Media in the Power Struggles by Sebahattin Ziyanak and Mehmet Soyer Chapter 4: Public Health and Environmental Concerns by Sebahattin Ziyanak, Mehmet Soyer, and Dorothy Jackson Chapter 5: Theoretical and Practical Implications: Soyer - Ziyanak’s Stages of Social Problem Model by Mehmet Soyer and Sebahattin Ziyanak Chapter 6: International Boundaries: Water of the Rio Grande by Dian Jordan Chapter 7: Supreme Justice: The Ruling for Red River Water by Dian Jordan Chapter 8: Political Cooperation for American Indian Water Rights at Sardis Lake by Dian Jordan Index About the Authors
