Memo+7+-+Research+Design+Grid


 * **Aims** || To generate new knowledge about the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on individuals within fracked communities || To better understand what enables industry to infiltrate communities, oftentimes bringing with it destructive practices that negatively affect community members. || To better understand the role of individuals (women in particular?) in communities affected by fracking ||
 * **Questions** || What effects are felt by individuals of fracked communities, and how are these effects felt through other levels of community and society? || What factors enhance or limit a community's ability to cope with harmful industry practices? || How do women in these communties define environmental disaster, and what do they feel is the appropiate response? Do they view fracking as such a disaster? What sorts of networks do they form with other women in the community? ||
 * **Data Collections** || Interviews with community members and public officials, review of policies regarding fracking || Interviews with community members, review of industry practice, review of existing literature on community vulnerability to industry. || Interviews with women in these communities, review of the roles women have played in past environmental disaster response (through literature). ||
 * **Emerging Arguments** || Shale gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing negatively impacts human and animal health in the surrounding communities || I'm not exactly sure || In the realm of environmental issues, women are often portrayed as either vulnerable or virtuous. ||
 * **Literature** || Schmidt, Charles W. “Blind Rush? Shale Gas Boom Proceeds Amid Human Health Questions.” //Environmental Health Perspectives// 119.8 (2011): a348. Print. ||  || Seema Arora-Jonsson. “Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on Women, Gender and Climate Change.” //Global Environmental Change// 21.2 (2011): 744–751. ||