Politics below the Surface: A Political Ecology of Mineral Rights and Land Tenure Struggles in Appalachia and the Andes

Politics below the Surface: A Political Ecology of Mineral Rights and Land Tenure Struggles in Appalachia and the Andes

This dissertation examines how confusion and lack of access to information about subsurface property rights facilitates the rapid acquisition of mineral rights by mining interests, leaving those who live 'above the surface' to contend with complicated corporate and bureaucratic apparatuses...

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Main Author: Shade, Lindsay
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2017
Subjects:
political ecology
Appalachia
Latin America
mining
extractive industries
development
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Environmental Studies
Geography
Human Geography
International and Area Studies
Latin American Studies
Legal Studies
Legal Theory
Nature and Society Relations
Political Economy
Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/50
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=geography_etds

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