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Resource Extraction and Fluctuations in Poverty
(Lafayette Parish, LA 1997 - Society & Natural Resources) Case study shows how poverty itself and causal factors changed during a well documented resource developmental cycle and the problems of an over-dependent economy.
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Non-metropolitan Industrialization and Patterns of Dominance
Non-metropolitan Industrialization and Patterns of Dominance: Is non-metropolitan America a Colony? (1980 - Purdue University) Document provides a broad discussion of the effects of urban industrialization on rural areas of the untied states in relation to energy resources.
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Boomtown Youth
(Colorado, 1984 - American Sociological Review) Document shows development may not actually slow the rate of exodus among rural youth, and younger persons having a greater degree of negative feelings towards growth than adults.
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Energy Development and Local Employment
(South East Utah, 1980 - University of Wyoming) Paper discusses problems with an industrial workforce developing in a rural economy. Part of the Part of UW Department of Social Work's 1980 book 'The Boom Town: Problems and Promises in the Energy Vortex' (Davenport and Davenport, Eds.).
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Boomtown Women
(Farmington, NM, 1980 - Environmental Action) Article details the lives of Women in a booming four-corners region due to both oil extraction and power plant construction.
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Tax Lead Time Study: The Colorado Oil Shale
(Rifle, CO. 1974 -- Colorado Committee on Oil Shale Environmental Problems) Document includes fiscal alternatives for rapidly growing communities in Colorado and potential techniques for handling revenue timing and distribution problems associated with rapid population growth.
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Socioeconomic Research Issues: Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Workshop on Socioeconomic Research Issues for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region (Gulf Cost 2004 - U.S. Dept of Interior) Document discusses proceedings and findings on 2004 workshop that discusses research potentials due to industry and economic trends due to off-shore oil and gas development.
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Boomtowns and Off-shore Energy Impacts
Boomtowns and Off-shore Energy Impacts: Towards a Comprehensive Model (Saint Mary Parish, LA 1986 - Pacific Sociological Association) Document discusses the Boomtown Model outlined in Western states and it's applicability to off-shore energy development. Includes additional commentary, and responses by the authors.
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The Boom-Bust Recovery Cycle
The Boom-Bust Recovery Cycle: Dynamics of Change in Community Satisfaction and Social Integration in Delta, Utah (Delta, UT 2005 - The Rural Sociological Society) Document examines the impact of a Utah energy boom and methods of motoring the impacts 24 years after the bust.
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