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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Floods
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045350902
Author : Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813185743
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.
Author : Erik Reece
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781594482366
A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : WISC:89030532311
Author : Willie R. Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Strip mining
ISBN : MINN:31951D02995528Z
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.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063962018
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090803218
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : IND:30000105963353
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCAL:B3904785
Author : Ronald D Eller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813173207
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."
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reclamation of land
ISBN : UOM:39015082591358
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reclamation of land
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119495435
Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0807854352
Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Here, Chad Montrie examines the twentieth-century movem
Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133463757
Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : OSU:32435022249148