Who Owns Appalachia?: Landownership and Its Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813150965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian regionVirginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently
About the AuthorThe Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, a cooperative effort among communities, scholars, and individuals in the region, funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission, performed the survey.Charles C. . Geisler is professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University
Geisler is professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. . The Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, a cooperative effort among communities, scholars, and individuals in the region, funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission, performed the survey.Charles C