Framing fracking: Private property, common resources, and regimes of governance

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 303-319

  Hudgins, Anastasia ^a   Poole, Amanda ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Fracking; Governance; Marcellus shale; Pennsylvania Act 13

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; CIVIL SOCIETY; GAS FIELD; GAS INDUSTRY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATURAL GAS; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL POWER; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912574849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10730451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v21i1.21138     Document Type: Article

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