Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining
Digging Up Trouble examines questions central to social science debates through a specific empirical scenario, focusing on the controversies surrounding open-cast mining (known in North America as "strip mining") in order to examine the complex relationships between environmental planning, political economy and local culture.

Contrasting the words and actions of local people, politicians, planners and industrialists in order to dramatize the different interests and perceptions which bear upon local planning decisions, this book examines the nature of knowledge, conflicts between the worlds of "common sense" and "expertise," and the manifestations of these problems in the context of political and economic decision-making. The debates illuminate questions of risk, environmental protest and new social movements, the public and the private, and economics and politics at the local level.

This original and detailed work invites a consideration of contemporary values, and of the significance of landscape and place in everyday life.

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Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining
Digging Up Trouble examines questions central to social science debates through a specific empirical scenario, focusing on the controversies surrounding open-cast mining (known in North America as "strip mining") in order to examine the complex relationships between environmental planning, political economy and local culture.

Contrasting the words and actions of local people, politicians, planners and industrialists in order to dramatize the different interests and perceptions which bear upon local planning decisions, this book examines the nature of knowledge, conflicts between the worlds of "common sense" and "expertise," and the manifestations of these problems in the context of political and economic decision-making. The debates illuminate questions of risk, environmental protest and new social movements, the public and the private, and economics and politics at the local level.

This original and detailed work invites a consideration of contemporary values, and of the significance of landscape and place in everyday life.

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Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining

Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining

Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining

Digging up Trouble: The Environment Protest and Opencast Coal Mining

Overview

Digging Up Trouble examines questions central to social science debates through a specific empirical scenario, focusing on the controversies surrounding open-cast mining (known in North America as "strip mining") in order to examine the complex relationships between environmental planning, political economy and local culture.

Contrasting the words and actions of local people, politicians, planners and industrialists in order to dramatize the different interests and perceptions which bear upon local planning decisions, this book examines the nature of knowledge, conflicts between the worlds of "common sense" and "expertise," and the manifestations of these problems in the context of political and economic decision-making. The debates illuminate questions of risk, environmental protest and new social movements, the public and the private, and economics and politics at the local level.

This original and detailed work invites a consideration of contemporary values, and of the significance of landscape and place in everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781854891136
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora Press
Publication date: 04/28/2000
Pages: 306
Product dimensions: 5.47(w) x 8.49(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Huw Beynon is Professor of Sociology and a director of the ESRC Research Centre on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester. Andrew Cox was formerly Research Fellow at the University of Durham and is editor of U.K. Coal Review. Ray Hudson is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham and Director of the Centre of European Studies and Director of the ESRC Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe.
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