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Book SynopsisWhen Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges accompanying unconventional gas extraction through fracking. The multidisciplinary perspectives of this volume''s essays tie together insights from planners, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists. What emerges is a more nuanced perspective of shale gas development and its impacts on municipalities and residents.
Unlike many political debates that cast fracking in black-and-white terms, this book''s contributors embrace the complexity of local responses to fracking. States adapted legal institutions to meet the new challenges posed by this energy extraction process while under-resourced municipal officials and local planning offices found creative wa
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Each [chapter] is well written and clear, drawing variously upon empirical data, economic analysis, and theoretical development. Clear insight is provided by the authors and editors [...]the book would be of broad interest to scholars and graduate-level researchers in the fields of economic geography, rural sociology, energy economics and environmental justice.
* Journal of Urban Affairs *
This volume can serve as a blueprint for local decision-makers to aid in decisionmaking that more holistically weighs the tradeoffs of energy development. It will also serve as a useful teaching resource to introduce both undergraduate and graduate students to the realities communities face when fracking comes to town.
* The Pennsylvania Geographer *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond the Boom, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili
Part I: GOVERNANCE
1. The Shale Boom in Historical Perspective, by Ilia Murtazashvili and Ennio Piano
2. Local Jurisdictions and Variations in State Law in theMarcellus Shale Region, by Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
3. How the Legal Framework of Fracking in Appalachia Disserves the Poor, by Ann M. Eisenberg
4. Framing Fracking through Local Lenses, by Pamela A. Mischen and Joseph T. Palka, Jr.
Part II: PLANNING
5. Using Boom town Models to Understand the Consequences of Fracking, by Adelyn Hall and Carla Chifos
6. Hydraulic Fracturing and Boom town Planning in Western North Dakota, by Teresa Córdova
7. Local Planning in Beaver County and the Shell Cracker Plant, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Rebecca Matsco
8. The Resource Conflict and the Local Economic Trade-Offs of Fracking, by Anna C. Osland and Carolyn G. Loh
Part III: ECONOMIC IMPACT
9. Local Labor Markets and Shale Gas, by Frederick Tannery and Larry McCarthy
10. Shale Energy and Regional Economic Development Impacts in Northwest Pennsylvania, by Erik R. Pages, Martin Romitti, and Mark C. White
11. The Boom, the Bust, and the Cost of the Cleanup, by Nicholas G. McClure, Ion Simonides, and Jeremy G. Weber
12. Private and Public Economic Impacts of Fracking in Wyoming, by Gavin Roberts and Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju
13. An Economic and Policy Analysis of Shale Gas Well Bond, by Max Harleman
Conclusion: Lessons and Extensions, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili
