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 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Shale oil extraction
business.industry Geography Planning and Development Fossil fuel 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development Unconventional oil 01 natural sciences Variety (cybernetics) Geography Sovereignty Business cycle Economic Geology Economic geography business American west 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Extractive Industries and Society. 5:619-633 |
| ISSN: | 2214-790X |
| 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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