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When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on two questions: what kind of strategies of de‐institutionalization of the regulatory state have been chosen, and to what extent can they be linked to an explicit ‘populist’ agenda guided by a ‘will of the people’‐ based justification that cuts across different regulatory domains? Applied to the case of Mexico, this article
Mauricio I. Dussauge‐Laguna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fracking in der Schweiz? Im Zweifelsfall nein!

open access: yes, 2015
Die Gasgewinnung mittels Fracking stösst in der Schweiz vielerorts auf Opposition. Auch wenn kaum konkrete Projekte existieren, haben einzelne Kantone bereits Verbote beschlossen.
Fischer, Manuel, Ingold, Karin
core  

Socio-environmental risk zones for fracking development: a spatialized multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for the Burgos Basin, Mexico

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Communications
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , has experienced exponential growth, mainly in the United States due to the development of the shale gas energy market.
Carla Vázquez Morales   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Postcolonial Times: Lock the Gate or Pull Down the Fences? A special Monograph Edition

open access: yesCoolabah, 2013
The development of a rural coal seam gas industry in regional Australia, together with its key technology, fracking, has been met by a very active, lively and vocal social protest movement.
Bill Boyd
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting Cognitive and Behavioral Characteristics of Policy Conflict in Oil and Gas Politics

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2020
The essence of policy conflicts remains largely underdeveloped, both theoretically and empirically. We explore policy conflict and explain its cognitive and behavioral characteristics using data from a survey administered to policy actors involved in oil
Christopher M. Weible, Tanya Heikkila
doaj   +1 more source

Fracking, farming, and water

open access: yesEnergy Policy, 2017
Several studies note the significant quantity of water used to hydraulically fracture oil and gas wells. For nine western states in 2013, water use in fracking represented just 0.8 percent of agricultural water use for irrigation. Locally, fracking used more water than farming only in counties with below-median irrigated acreage.
Claudia Hitaj   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Geomechanics in Hydrocarbon Extraction Through Fracking Analysis from the Environmental Optics based on Universally Socialized Primary Information

open access: yes, 2023
DigitalLa presente monografía tiene como objetivo principal describir el papel fundamental de la geomecánica en la extracción de hidrocarburos mediante la técnica de fracking, a través de un análisis desde la perspectiva medioambiental, basado en ...
Cardenas-Osma, Angie Katherine
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The U.K.'s "Dash for Gas" A Rapid Evidence Assessment of Fracking for Shale Gas, Regulation and Public Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The evidence on public health regulation of the unconventional gas extraction (fracking) industry was examined using a rapid evidence assessment of fifteen case studies from multiple countries.
Dinan, William   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Just fracking: a distributive environmental justice analysis of unconventional gas development in Pennsylvania, USA

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2016
This letter presents a distributive environmental justice analysis of unconventional gas development in the area of Pennsylvania lying over the Marcellus Shale, the largest shale gas formation in play in the United States.
Emily Clough, Derek Bell
doaj   +1 more source

Costos económicos de las externalidades ambientales del fracking: un análisis de metarregresión y algunas implicaciones para Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
La cuantificación monetaria de las externalidades ambientales derivadas de la explotación de hidrocarburos no convencionales que utiliza la técnica de fracturación hidráulica o fracking muestra una alta variabilidad pues sus costos no están unívocamente ...
Carriazo, Fernando   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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