Scientists, Citizens, and the Uses of Science in the Anti-Fracking Movement in New York State

• In Event: 378 - Open Refereed Roundtable Session II
  In Refereed Roundtable: B. Table 15. Environmental Sociology

Abstract

Based on ongoing fieldwork In the Finger Lakes region of New York, this paper explores the factors that have made scientists an integral part of the anti-fracking movement, how scientists have facilitated dissemination of science to the citizenry, and how scientists and scientific knowledge have affected the movement's strategy and end goals, including a shift from anti-fracking to pro-renewables.

Author

• Elizabeth Long, Rice University