When Fracking Comes to Town

Sabina E. Deitrick is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Codirector of the Urban and Regional Analysis program, University Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a coauthor of The Rise of the Gunbelt. Follow her on Twitter @deitrick. Ilia Murtazashvili is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Associate Director of the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Political Economy of Fracking and several other books. Follow him on X @IMurtazashvili.

Introduction: Beyond the Boom, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili

Part I: GOVERNANCE

1. The Shale Boom in Historical Perspective, by Ilia Murtazashvili and Ennio Piano

2. Local Jurisdictions and Variations in State Law in theMarcellus Shale Region, by Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

3. How the Legal Framework of Fracking in Appalachia Disserves the Poor, by Ann M. Eisenberg

4. Framing Fracking through Local Lenses, by Pamela A. Mischen and Joseph T. Palka, Jr.

Part II: PLANNING

5. Using Boom town Models to Understand the Consequences of Fracking, by Adelyn Hall and Carla Chifos

6. Hydraulic Fracturing and Boom town Planning in Western North Dakota, by Teresa Córdova

7. Local Planning in Beaver County and the Shell Cracker Plant, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Rebecca Matsco

8. The Resource Conflict and the Local Economic Trade-Offs of Fracking, by Anna C. Osland and Carolyn G. Loh

Part III: ECONOMIC IMPACT

9. Local Labor Markets and Shale Gas, by Frederick Tannery and Larry McCarthy

10. Shale Energy and Regional Economic Development Impacts in Northwest Pennsylvania, by Erik R. Pages, Martin Romitti, and Mark C. White

11. The Boom, the Bust, and the Cost of the Cleanup, by Nicholas G. McClure, Ion Simonides, and Jeremy G. Weber

12. Private and Public Economic Impacts of Fracking in Wyoming, by Gavin Roberts and Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju

13. An Economic and Policy Analysis of Shale Gas Well Bond, by Max Harleman

Conclusion: Lessons and Extensions, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili