Oil in Troubled Waters

Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling

AvWilliam R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues in sociological and historical contexts.What has been in very short supply on this issue, as in a growing number of other cases of technological gridlock, is balanced analysis. That is what this book provides. The authors' case studies, derived from interviews with Louisiana and California residents and from environmental impact statements, demonstrate that easy answers are not the most valid ones. The region that should be considered unusual, they find, is coastal Louisiana, where historical, social, and environmental factors combine to favor the offshore oil industry. But this combination of factors, they argue, is unlikely to be found in other coastal regions of the U.S. in the near future.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-04-21
Mått:153 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Environmental Public Policy
Antal sidor:179
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791418819

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William R. Freudenburg is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served for six years on the Scientific Advisory Committee of offshore oil drilling for the U.S. Department of Interior. Robert Gramling is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Socioeconomic Research at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and has served on an advisory panel on federal offshore oil leasing for the National Academy of Sciences.

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"This book is extremely well written, so that it reads like an interesting story, even as it chronicles the intermingling of a complex set of cultural, historical, political, economic, and technological factors. It is an excellent sociological analysis which challenges the reader's taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of offshore drilling and carefully documents the reasons behind the different perceptions and experiences of California and Louisiana residents. The current status of offshore drilling is meaningfully framed by a cultural history of the political economy of the two states." — Jean Blocker, University of Tulsa

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List of AcronymsList of PhotographsPreface1. Dawn of Discord2. Getting to Gridlock3. The Citizens Speak4. Probing the Paradox5. Spinning and Slipping6. A Framework for the Future?7. Ideology and ImpactsAppendix. The Legal ContextReferencesIndex