How Dallas became frack free: hydrocarbon governance under neoliberalism

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2591-2608

  Fry, Matthew ^a   Brannstrom, Christian ^b   Murphy, Trey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anti politics; mineral estate property; neoliberal contestation; policy mobilities; unconventional oil and gas

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATION; DRILLING; ENERGY POLICY; GAS PRODUCTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; NEOLIBERALISM; OIL PRODUCTION; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL POWER; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

DALLAS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84950341990     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15616633     Document Type: Article

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