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Direct linkShriver, Thomas E.; Kennedy, Dennis K. – Rural Sociology, 2005
The majority of the literature on contaminated communities indicates that environmental hazards lead to conflict and dissension. In this paper we examine the salient dimensions of conflict and factionalism in a rural Oklahoma community. The community is heavily contaminated from 80 years of commercial mining operations and was one of the first…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Physical Environment, Hazardous Materials, Conflict
