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 up...