Strip Mining And The Flooding In Appalachia
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Strip Mining And The Flooding In Appalachia
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Strip Mining And The Flooding In Appalachia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Floods categories.
Lost Mountain
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Author : Erik Reece
language : en
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Release Date : 2006
Lost Mountain written by Erik Reece and has been published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
"Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain, aptly named Lost Mountain. He makes evident that strip mining is not just a local concern or a radical issue, but a mainstream crisis that involves everything from corporate hubris and government neglect to species extinction and poisoned groundwater to class conflict and landscape destruction."--BOOK JACKET.
Who Owns Appalachia
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Author : Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Who Owns Appalachia written by Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Social Science categories.
Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.
Study Of Strip And Surface Mining In Appalachia
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Author : United States. Department of the Interior
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Study Of Strip And Surface Mining In Appalachia written by United States. Department of the Interior and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Government publications categories.
Land Ownership Patterns And Their Impacts On Appalachian Communities
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Land Ownership Patterns And Their Impacts On Appalachian Communities written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Appalachian Region categories.
Surface Mining And The Flood Of April 1977
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Author : Willie R. Curtis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Surface Mining And The Flood Of April 1977 written by Willie R. Curtis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Strip mining categories.
Data from experimental sites in Breathitt County, Kentucky, and Raleigh County, West Virginia, showed that during a major rainstorm on 4 April 1977 streamflow from surface-mined watersheds peaked lower than that from adjacent or nearby unmined watersheds.
Activities Of The House Committee On Government Operations
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Activities Of The House Committee On Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Interim Report Of The Activities Of The House Committee On Government Operations
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Interim Report Of The Activities Of The House Committee On Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Environmental Aspects Of Coal Production In The Appalachian Region
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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Uneven Ground
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Author : Ronald D Eller
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2008-10-24
Uneven Ground written by Ronald D Eller and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-24 with History categories.
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sought to "uplift" the mountain people through education and industrialization. Ronald D Eller has worked with local leaders, state policymakers, and national planners to translate the lessons of private industrial-development history into public policy affecting the region. In Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945, Eller examines the politics of development in Appalachia since World War II with an eye toward exploring the idea of progress as it has evolved in modern America. Appalachia's struggle to overcome poverty, to live in harmony with the land, and to respect the diversity of cultures and the value of community is also an American story. In the end, Eller concludes, "Appalachia was not different from the rest of America; it was in fact a mirror of what the nation was becoming."