New rig on the block: Spatial policy discourse and the new suburban geography of energy production on Colorado's Front Range

Environmental Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 337-351

  Kroepsch, Adrianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

American West; critical discourse analysis; cultural sociology of space; hydraulic fracturing; suburbs; Unconventional oil and gas extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954113421     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1127852     Document Type: Article

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