Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

Goldthau, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2016.05.003

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“…Intersections of resource extraction, environmental shocks and stressors, and social disruption have been well-established across sociological research, including through the lenses of historical and current community natural resource dependence [ [60] , [61] ]. Further, variations in regulations across different places, and especially international contexts [ 62 ], can also result in drastic differences in how the industry is perceived, the pace at which UOG production is implemented, and even whether it is adopted at all in places like the European Union with more precautionary approaches [ 63 ]. While the shocks and stressors experienced amid UOG production are not surprising, they need to be more systematically analyzed for relationships to stress and mental health.…”

Section: A Review: Industrial Environmental Stressors Environmental mentioning

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Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States

Malin

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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Highlights U.S. unconventional oil and gas production has proliferated, moving into neighborhoods. Institutional contexts and procedural equity matter for mental health. Interviewees experienced inaccessible information as significant institutional barrier. Interviewees experienced powerlessness to decide how, when, & where production takes place. These 2 institutional barriers structure procedural inequity, amplify negative mental health impacts.

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Section: A Review: Industrial Environmental Stressors Environmental mentioning

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Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States

Malin

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…For example, whereas the United States was an importer of energy in the latter half of the twentieth century, since 2013 it has been leading the world in natural gas production. By outstripping Russia as the world's largest gas producer, the United States has asserted itself globally through energy (16). To analyze unconventional energy resources, scholars have begun to explore lessons learned from studies on conventional oil and gas (15), which include concerns regarding oil wars (33) and the so-called resource curse (negative economic and political outcomes in countries highly dependent on oil and gas exports for state revenue; 34).…”

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“…Social science research on unconventional energy has expanded rapidly across disciplines, including political science and policy studies, economics, geography, anthropology, sociology, and law, and ranging from local (12) to national (13) to global scales (14). Building on a previous review on the environmental costs and benefits of HF (1) and other early contributions to the scholarship of regulation and governance of shale gas development and HF (15,16), this review provides a synthesis of social science research on unconventional energy governance, focusing primarily on HF (often referred to as fracking), 2 while referencing a broader range of fossil fuel resources when appropriate.…”

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Debating Unconventional Energy: Social, Political, and Economic Implications

Neville

Baka

Gamper‐Rabindran

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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The extraction of unconventional oil and gas-from shale rocks, tight sand, and coalbed formations-is shifting the geographies of fossil fuel production, with complex consequences. Following Jackson et al.'s (1) natural science survey of the environmental consequences of hydraulic fracturing, this review examines social science literature on unconventional energy. After an overview of the rise of unconventional energy, the review examines energy economics and geopolitics, community mobilization, and state and private regulatory responses. Unconventional energy requires different frames of analysis than conventional energy because of three characteristics: increased drilling density, low-carbon and "clean" energy narratives of natural gas, and distinct ownership and royalty structures. This review points to the need for an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the resulting dynamic, multilevel web of relationships that implicate land, water, food, and climate. Furthermore, the review highlights how scholarship on unconventional energy informs the broader energy landscape and contested energy futures. 2.1

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“…In terms of shale gas, Geng et al (2016) and Aguilera and Radetzki (2014) mentioned that the appearance of shale gas has caused a shale gas revolution. Goldthau (2016) and Hammond and O’Grady (2016) suggested that energy policy makers should prepare a change in course in response to the shale gas option that might meet the needs of a low carbon future. Facing fast-changing and unpredictable situations, energy-importing countries should focus on promoting energy efficiency by using existing resources more effectively.…”

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Disaggregate energy efficiency of regions in Taiwan

Chang

Tsay

2018

MEQ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Taiwan’s regional energy efficiency trend and complement the work of the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) index proposed by Hu and Wang (2006). It further extends panel data stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) modeling for estimating disaggregate energy efficiency. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies the panel data stochastic production frontier to estimate the TFEE scores for 20 administrative regions in Taiwan over the period 2004-2015. The SFA models include five inputs (employed population, amount of productive electricity power consumed, amount of electricity consumed for household and non-household electric lighting, amount of gasoline sales, and amount of diesel sales) and one output (total real income in the base year of 2011). Findings This research concludes with three main findings: the inefficient administrative regions of Taiwan include mostly large industrial parks and the petrochemical industry cluster; the top five administrative regions with inefficient diesel use are mostly metropolitan areas that the concern of air pollution caused by diesel system arouses the awareness to use less diesel fuel; and the average TFEE score on household and non-household electric lighting is higher than the usage efficiency of productive electricity power, gasoline, and diesel, but there is still room for efficiency improvement. Originality/value Most administrative regions in Taiwan are not efficient in almost all kinds of energy use. The results show that the efficiencies of using productive electricity power, gasoline, and diesel need to be improved a lot more.

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Conceptualizing the above ground factors in shale gas: Toward a research agenda on regulatory governance

Cited by 11 publications

References 115 publications

Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States

Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States

Debating Unconventional Energy: Social, Political, and Economic Implications

Disaggregate energy efficiency of regions in Taiwan

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