Environmental disputes and opportunity-threat impacts surrounding natural gas fracking in Louisiana

Social Currents

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 293-311

  Ladd, Anthony E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment and technology; Environmental disputes; Hydraulic fracking; Natural shale gas development; Opportunity threat impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012926707     PISSN: 23294965     EISSN: 23294973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2329496514540132     Document Type: Article

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