Who Owns Appalachia?: Landownership and Its Impact - Paperback

by Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force (Author), Charles C. Geisler (Introduction by)

Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land

Author Biography

The Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, a cooperative effort among communities, scholars, and individuals in the region, funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission, performed the survey.

Charles C. Geisler is professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.