A primary way that natural resources affect a locality is through the demand for labor, with
greater extraction requiring more workers. Shifts in labor demand can be measured through …

The shale gas boom revolutionized the energy sector through hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
High levels of energy production force communities, states, and nations to consider the …

Industrial transformation is the key to urban transformation. Despite extensive studies on the
topic of resource curse, limited studies have analyzed the impact of resource dependence …

Climate change, the imbalance between China's domestic energy supply and demand, and
the success of the shale gas revolution in the United States have been the main motivators …

Metabolisms of energy in society and space are predicated upon human labour, in ways that
are often poorly recognized in relation to the global climate challenge. I synthesize and …

This paper quantifies the local economic impacts of hydraulic fracturing. We match extremely
detailed oil and natural gas well data to county-level aggregate and sectoral employment …

We survey the growing literature studying the effects of natural resource abundance or
dependence on human capital accumulation, a key factor in development and economic …

This study utilizes the spatial panel method to investigate the direct and spatial spillover
effects of resource rents on economic complexity (ECI) based on a cross-country panel data …

It's been just over a decade since Unconventional Oil and Gas development began in
earnest in the Marcellus Shale, a dense shale formation that, along with the deeper and …

Shale gas is a growing contributor to China's natural gas production. It is seen as a key
component of the country's energy transition. As a major shale gas producing region …