TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
TI  - Who owns Appalachia?: landownership and its impact 
SN  - 9780813161938
AV  - HD210 .W466 2015
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Appalachian Region
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - Local finance
KW  - Mineral industries
KW  - Taxation
KW  - Real property tax
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Landownership-A National Issue, an Appalachian Issue; 2. Who Owns the Land and Minerals?; 3. Who Bears the Tax Burden?; 4. Economic Development for Whom?; 5. Appalachia's Disappearing Farmland; 6. Homeless in the Mountains; 7. Ownership, Energy, and the Land; 8. A Call to Action; Appendix 1. Fifty Top Owners and Other Data; Appendix 2. Methodology of the Land Study; Appendix 3. Annotated Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; 2; b
N2  - 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 and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this co
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