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Bringing Down the Mountains
Author | : Shirley Stewart Burns |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105124101911 |
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Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Sacred Mountains
Author | : Andrew R. H. Thompson |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2015-12-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780813166018 |
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Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Downstream Impacts -- 2 Environmental Ethics and the Construction of Values -- 3 Relation, Revelation, and Revolution -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- 4 The Meanings of the Mountains -- 5 All My Holy Mountain -- 6 Loving the Mountains -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Hydronarratives
Author | : Matthew S. Henry |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781496234346 |
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The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination. In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.
Canada s Rural Majority
Author | : R.W. Sandwell |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780802086167 |
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Global Mountain Regions
Author | : Ann Kingsolver,Sasikumar Balasundaram |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253036889 |
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No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future.
Take Three Colours Watercolour Mountains
Author | : Palmer |
Publsiher | : Search Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781781266144 |
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Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria
Author | : Charles Boner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Bavaria (Germany) |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10915087 |
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Observations on the Snowdon Mountains with Some Account of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants To which is Added a Genealogical Account of the the Penrhyn Families By William Williams of Llandegai
Author | : William Williams (of Llandegai.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1802 |
Genre | : Snowdonia (Wales) |
ISBN | : YALE:39002067737172 |
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