McDeviit+Memo+5+-+Project+Definition

Working Title: The multi-level community impacts of hydraulic fracturing ? (Still working on this part)
 * **Social Theoretical Questions:** || What factors enhance or limit a community's ability to cope with harmful industry practices? What social and cultural characteristics affect a community's dynamics? How does environmental health stress affect community dynamics? How does environmental stress affect society at the individual, family, community, local governance, state, and national levels? ||
 * **Research Questions** || How does the fracking industry impact communities at the individual level, and what repercussions does this have for the other levels of the community and society in general? How aware are these individuals of the risks posed by fracking? ||
 * **Why Now?** || Fracking is an ongoing debate of particular importance in NY State. The environmental and social implications are numerous. ||
 * **How Prepared?** || Research last semester; possible trips to West Virginia, contacts in West VIrginia, contacts in the NYS AG's office ||
 * **Fields of Work** || Environmental health, environmental justice, ethnography (?), community structure, community governance, public health, environmental regulation and policy ||
 * **Funders** || NSF? Anti-fracking organizations? I'm still a little stuck on this part.... ||