Description: "This book considers how planners and local public administrators responded to the natural gas shale boom, declining shale production, and the local economic consequences of fracking. Rather than powerlessness, the case studies show how communities adapted to new challenges while capturing some of the economic benefits from the fracking revolution"--
Review Quotes:
Each [chapter] is well written and clear, drawing variously upon empirical data, economic analysis, and theoretical development. Clear insight is provided by the authors and editors [...]the book would be of broad interest to scholars and graduate-level researchers in the fields of economic geography, rural sociology, energy economics and environmental justice.
-- "Journal of Urban Affairs"