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While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques-more commonly known as "fracking"-on local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions. Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. --- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. --- SCIENCE / Environmental Science. --- Shale gas industry --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Hydraulic fracturing --- Gas industry --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Risk assessment --- Social aspects --- EPA. --- climate change. --- drilling. --- energy. --- environment. --- fossil fuel. --- fracking. --- fuel. --- hydraulic. --- natural gas. --- oil. --- protest. --- sustainable energy.