The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Ignited Debate, Challenged Regulators, and Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century (Regional) - Hardcover

Fisk, Jonathan M.; Good, David Allen; Jordan, Soren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822947366 ISBN 13: 9780822947363

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022

Synopsis

Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing - more commonly known as fracking - was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added to the complexity of twenty-first-century natural resource management. Through a longitudinal study taken from 2000 to 2015, Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, and A. J. Good examine how the management of natural resources functions relative to specific regulatory actions including inspections, identifying violations, and the use of specific regulatory tools. Ultimately, they find that factors as disparate as state policy goals, elected officials, the availability of data, inspectors, front-line staff, and the use of technology form a context that, in turn, shapes the use of specific regulatory tools and decisions

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About the Author

Jonathan M. Fisk (Author)
Jonathan M. Fisk is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University.

Soren Jordan (Author)
Soren Jordan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University.

A.J. Good (Author)
A. J. Good is a data analytics specialist in the Office of Institutional Research at James Madison University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822947366
• ISBN 13: 9780822947363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268