Prof Joyce M Barry Nature Books | sku-19588828 Women

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal is a Nature Books hardcover by Prof Joyce M Barry. Listed for Female readers as sku-19588828, it examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

The practice demolishes hilltops and mountaintops to reach coal seams and is a major environmental threat in Appalachia, where it is most common. The women in the book have firsthand experience of coal mining's effects on their communities. Through groups including Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they advocate for alternative energy.

Barry describes how their organizing brought international attention to mountaintop removal and helped build the environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.