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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UKnowledge
2017
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/50 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=geography_etds |