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eBook
Standing Our Ground
2012
Overview
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.
The Appalachian women featured in Barry's book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry's engaging and original work reveals how women's tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Subject
/ Coal mines and mining-Environmental aspects-Appalachian Region
/ Community activists-Appalachian Region
/ Environmental justice-Appalachian Region
/ HISTORY
/ Labor & Industrial Relations
/ Landscape protection-Appalachian Region-Citizen participation
/ Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
/ Mountaintop removal mining-Social aspects-Appalachian Region
/ U.S.A
/ Women
ISBN
0821444107, 9780821444108, 9780821419977, 0821419978, 0821421328, 9780821421321
