Environmental Control in Appalachia: Politics of the Red River Gorge Dam Controversy, 1962-1975

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorHall, Randal
dc.creatorCook, Kamil
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-11T19:49:08Z
dc.date.available2022-11-11T19:49:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-30
dc.description.abstractIn 1962, Congress approved the building of a dam on the Red River in Eastern Kentucky because of recurring floods affecting Powell County, Kentucky. This dam threatened a beautiful and ecologically unique part of the Red River, and, in response, in 1967 a group of environmental activists gathered together to challenge the building of this dam. After a contracted battle involving the Army Corps of Engineers, environmental activists, politicians, and local people, the dam was never built. Along with chronicling this controversy, my thesis explores the changing conceptions of the environment through the 1960s and 1970s and illustrates that Appalachian environmental activism not only existed, but was contemporary with national movements. I do this with the support of newspapers, letters, legal records, bureaucratic reports and more gathered from the Red River Gorge archive at the University of Kentucky and an online newspaper database.
dc.format.extent85 pp
dc.identifier.citationCook, Kamil. "Environmental Control in Appalachia: Politics of the Red River Gorge Dam Controversy, 1962-1975." Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.25611/HJ0T-4906.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/HJ0T-4906
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/113899
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
dc.rightsCopyrighted material. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectEnvironmentalism
dc.subjectArmy Corps of Engineers
dc.subjectBureaucracy
dc.subjectEnvironmental Politics
dc.subjectDams
dc.subjectRivers
dc.subjectRed River
dc.subjectKentucky
dc.subjectActivism
dc.subjectCost-Benefit Analysis
dc.subjectEnvironmental Impact Statement
dc.subjectAppalachia
dc.titleEnvironmental Control in Appalachia: Politics of the Red River Gorge Dam Controversy, 1962-1975
dc.type.dcmiText
dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduate
thesis.degree.nameHonor Thesis
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
final-thesis.pdf
Size:
5.73 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Collections
Rice Undergraduate Theses