Cultural cumulative effects
Communicating energy extraction's true costs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Willow (0000-0002-3626-7749, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. Her research explores how environment, culture and politics intersect in contexts of contested natural resource extraction., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 21-26 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12394 |
| OpenAlex | W2774331665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Residents of northeastern British Columbia's Peace River region concurrently confront intensifying oil/gas drilling, reinvigorated coal mining and the construction of a third massive hydroelectric dam. After years of approaching industrial impacts as temporally and spatially isolatable, calls to acknowledge cumulative ecological effects are finally being heard. Yet the sociocultural disruptions that accompany biophysical alterations are equally essential components of a comprehensive cumulative effects agenda. This article considers how frameworks for comprehending the consequences of landscape‐altering, life‐changing projects could be expanded to address both the complex realities of ecological degradation and the entangled cultural and political transformations that contour local communities and lives. Ultimately, the resource extraction experiences at the forefront of regional residents’ minds must be recognized as key determinants of forthcoming socio‐natural worlds, as they arise and aggregate out of countless culturally constituted and politically mediated decisions to embrace, accept or oppose extractive schemes
Archaeology · Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hydroelectricity · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |