Geographies of Impact and the Impacts of Geography: Unconventional Oil and Gas in the American West

Autor: Kathryn Bills Walsh, David W. Bowen, Adrianne Kroepsch, Kristin K. Smith, Julia H. Haggerty
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Extractive Industries and Society. 5:619-633
ISSN: 2214-790X
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.002
Popis: Oil and gas exploration and development have a long history and remain important in the American West. The region supported 150,000 well completions from 2000 to 2017. In the same timeframe, unconventional oil and gas development in the West’s Niobrara and Bakken formations contributed 28% of United States shale oil production and 14% of shale gas yields. This essay introduces the concept of “impact geography” as a guiding framework for synthesizing literature on social impacts of unconventional oil and gas development and deploys the concept in a review of recent published literature on social impacts in the region. The impact geography approach reflects the fact that that social impacts are generated by, and contingent upon, interactions between economic cycles, geology, technology and local context as they occur in particular spaces and places. This review of social impacts, broadly defined, is organized around three major impact geographies: rural and remote; (sub) urban; and sovereign nations. Within these geographies, we identify a variety of places—boomtowns, industrialized countrysides, borderlands, petro-suburbs, and focusing sites —and survey the impacts that stakeholders within them have experienced as they have been reported in the academic literature.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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