Agricultural land use and natural gas extraction conflicts : a global socio-legal perspective

Introduction -- Socio-regulatory theories related to unconventional gas extraction and agricultural activities -- Natural resource governance and land use governance -- Protecting agricultural land: values of food security and food sovereignty -- Theories applicable to natural resource governance : adaptive management, precautionary principle and statism -- Socio-regulatory approaches in a comparative context -- Queensland, Australia -- British Columbia, Canada -- The UK -- New York, USA -- France -- Poland -- China -- Socio-regulatory responses and conclusions -- Collectivisim and collective bargaining -- Conclusions.