Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in West Virginia, 1997-2009

Organization and Environment

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-384

  Perdue, Robert Todd ^a   Pavela, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

addictive economies; coal; Freudenburg; mountaintop removal mining; poverty; resource curse; West Virginia

Indexed keywords

COAL MINING; EXTRACTION; MINING INDUSTRY; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84871360306     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026612464767     Document Type: Article

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