Geographies of Impact and the Impacts of Geography: Unconventional Oil and Gas in the American West

Haggerty, Julia H.; Kroepsch, Adrianne; Walsh, Kathryn Bills; Smith, Kristin K.; Bowen, David W.

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.002

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“…Geographic inquiries into the territorial logics of energy projects have studied the discursive, legal, and financial the processes through which areas are territorialized to make them suitable for low carbon projects (Harlan, 2018;McCarthy & Thatcher, 2017;McEwan, 2017). To further advance research on how energy shapes space, place, and territory, energy geographers could better engage the emerging field of impact geographies, which has been established to provide a geographic perspective on social impact analysis (Haggerty, Kroepsch, Walsh, Smith, & Bowen, 2018).…”

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The evolving borderland of energy geographies

Baka

Vaishnava

2020

Geography Compass

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Energy geographers have characterized energy as a borderland topic because of its ability to straddle and interconnect different geographic concepts and debates. In this review, we evaluate how the borderland of energy geographies has been emerging in recent years by analyzing scholarship on energy published in top geography journals and a leading energy studies journal, Energy Research & Social Science. In part 1 of our review, we evaluate how the borderland of energy geographies is evolving by mapping the geographic range of empirical studies, the processes and types of energy systems being researched and the key geographic concepts/theories engaged across the four main sub‐fields of geography. We find that energy geographies scholarship has primarily centered on the Global North, remains focused on the extractive and production phase of energy development and is evolving across and within three of the four sub‐fields of geography. Energy transitions, governance, justice, space, and landscape are key topics and concepts examined. Notable underrepresentations include a relative lack of energy geographies scholarship within physical geography, as well as limited studies that engage geographic concepts to study the transportation sector, unconventional energy development and the food‐energy‐water nexus. In part 2, we identify three broad research themes to expand the frontier of energy geographies: (a) geographies of energy knowledge production, particularly indigenous knowledge; (b) materializing energy, especially through engaging political‐industrial ecology; and (c) advancing geographic thought by critically assessing how studying energy advances/challenges/transforms core geographic concepts and debates. Collectively, our review demonstrates that energy geographies have established firm footing within and across geography. Deepening engagement with emerging trends elsewhere in geography and the social sciences will not only help to better conceptualize what a geographic perspective on energy means but will also help to make clearer sense of the rapid economic, social, environmental, and political transformations currently underway within the global energy system.

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Section: The Academic Borderland Of Energy Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolving borderland of energy geographies

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Vaishnava

2020

Geography Compass

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“…We were especially interested in the relative influence of political ideology and global warming beliefs across the eight energies, given the intensely partisan divide on climate change, growing awareness of the climate crisis, and the influence of these dynamics on public energy debates in both countries. We also focused on the effect of perceived economic importance of local energy industries on support, which we propose is increasingly relevant to study, given the changing geographies of energy production [98].…”

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Public Preferences in a Shifting Energy Future: Comparing Public Views of Eight Energy Sources in North America’s Pacific Northwest

Hazboun

Boudet

2020

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The U.S. and Canada continue to face major changes in energy production. Mounting awareness of the climate crisis has placed increasing importance on developing renewable energy sources, however, advances in fossil fuel extraction technology have opened vast domestic reserves of oil and natural gas. Public preferences for energy policy play a role in determining energy futures, but researchers rarely simultaneously compare public views across multiple renewable and non-renewable energies or across country boundaries. Here, we used a 2019 online survey sample (n = 1500) to compare predictors of support for eight fuel sources for electricity generation in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington and Oregon, USA. Results indicate the highest support overall for renewables (wind, solar, wave/tidal energy, geothermal) and the lowest for fossil fuels (coal and natural gas), nuclear, and hydropower. Mixed-effects regression modeling indicates that views on climate and the balance between environment and economy were consistent predictors of support across most energy types, while political ideology was less consistent. Perceived local importance of both extractive and renewable energy industries were significant predictors of support for some, but not all, energy sources, as were education and gender. Overall, our research suggests that while divisions persist in public energy preferences for both renewable and non-renewable sources, there is the broadest support for renewable energy technologies.

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“…"fracking"). Similarly unexpected has been the related deepening and broadening of the West's extractive terrain, including so-called "impact geographies" ranging from remote boomtowns and tribal sovereign lands to oilfield borderlands and petro-suburbs (Haggerty et al, 2018). While extraction has historically been associated with geographical frontiers and core-periphery relations, the proliferation of new patterns requires reconsideration of the spatial relations of resource geographies (Lave and Lutz, 2014).…”

Section: Unconventional Extractivism Uneven Re/developmentmentioning

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Revisiting and revitalizing political ecology in the American West

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Political ecology, initially conceived to better understand the power relations implicit in management and distribution of natural resources in the developing world, came "home" to the American West in the 1990s and 2000s. This groundswell of research did much to problematize socio-environmental conflicts in the region, long typified by tensions over land and resources, identity and belonging, autonomy and authority. Since first touching down in the West, however, the "big tent" of political ecology has only grown bigger, incorporating new perspectives, epistemologies, and ontologies. At the same time, the nexus of environment and society is perhaps even more salient today, amid a regional conjuncture of populist revolt, climate change, and rapid political economic transformation. Here we reflect on three longstanding regional concerns-energy development, wolf reintroduction, and participatory governance-leveraging the pluralism of contemporary political ecology to better understand their contemporary incarnations. In so doing, we highlight the need to bring together insights from both "traditional" approaches and newer directions to better understand and engage contemporary challenges, with their heightened stakes and complexity. Such an approach demonstrates what we might learn about global processes in this place, as well as what insights regional praxis (often woefully provincial) might gain from elsewhere-new ways of seeing and doing political ecology. Our goal is to generate discussion among and between political ecologists and regional critical scholars, initiating new collaborative engagements that might serve the next wave of political ecology in the 21st century American West.

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Geographies of Impact and the Impacts of Geography: Unconventional Oil and Gas in the American West

Cited by 27 publications

References 64 publications

The evolving borderland of energy geographies

The evolving borderland of energy geographies

Public Preferences in a Shifting Energy Future: Comparing Public Views of Eight Energy Sources in North America’s Pacific Northwest

Revisiting and revitalizing political ecology in the American West

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