Federal agencies anticipate local opposition where wind energy projects are proposed.
When opposition manifests as social action in later stages of project development, it can …

A failed proposal to substitute wind energy for mountaintop removal coal mining provides a
valuable case study illustrating the weakness of theoretical approaches that neglect class …

Two energy development scenarios were compared for the Coal River Mountain in Raleigh
County, West Virginia:(1) mountaintop mining (MTM) of coal, and (2) wind energy plus …

Set in contemporary southern West Virginia, Ann Pancake's 2007 novel Strange as This
Weather Has Been tells the stories of a West Virginian family that lives downstream from a …

" Coal mining has dominated the economy of Appalachia for more than a century and has
drastically altered much of the regional ecology. Among the primary impacts of coal mining …

This dissertation uses mixed methods to examine the role of the coal industry in the
reproduction of Central Appalachia as an internal periphery within the United States and the …

Social movements and collective action have often been studied using newspapers for data.
Concerns with newspaper data include selection bias, where a subset of accounts, events …

Nowhere is the debate over how far we are willing to go for inexpensive energy more
contentious than in the coalfields of Appalachia. It is there—between the hollows of West …

180 Sustainability MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.• Vol. 7 No. 4• August 2014• DOI: 10.1089/sus.
2014.9786 minimize it. Her attention becomes absorbed by its beauty, toughness, and …

This case discusses how multiple activist organizations were able to collaborate and form an
alliance in order to be more effective. The case represents an example of a best practice in …