"Eminent Domain." Merriam-Webster. Accessed March 19, 2018.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eminent%20domain 

Coalition, Castle. "State Report Card: Tracking Eminent Domain Reform Legislation since
Kelo." June (available at: http://www. castlecoalition. org) (50).

No published abstract.

Our Notes:
This is just website resource but it provides excellent information regarding ​eminent domain
law per state and offers information on how ​eminent domain​ is being reformed. It is not
academic but provided necessary perspective in understanding how ​eminent domain​ works in
Appalachia and comparatively to the rest of the United States.

Our Keywords:
Displacement, Eminent Domain, Tenure

Campbell, Thomas C. "Eminent Domain: Its Origin, Meaning, and Relevance to Coal
Slurry Pipelines." Transportation Journal (1977): 5-21.

No published abstract.

Our Notes:
The age of this article nearly renders it irrelevant since the issues its addressing happened over
40 years ago, that and the fact that using ​eminent domain​ for the purpose of installing coal
slurry pipelines never came to pass. However, it does make an important distinctions between
the use of ​eminent domain​ for public vs. private purposes and offers a usefully history of
eminent domain​ use. Traditionally, ​eminent domain​ was used for public purposes such as in
the cases of railroads as railroads serve the public interests. ​Eminent domain​ has also been used
in the case of oil and gas pipelines again under the regard for public interests after debate and
other circumstances such as war, coal slurry pipelines however are not understood to be in the
public interest. A proposed bill allowing the use ​eminent domain​ to be used to construct coal
slurry pipelines passed the Senate but failed in the House.
Mittlefehldt, Sarah. "The People's Path: Conflict and Cooperation in the Acquisition of the
Appalachian Trail." Environmental History 15, no. 4 (2010): 643-669.

Published Abstract:
When Congress passed the National Trails Act of 1968, the Appalachian Trail shifted from
being a regional grassroots endeavor to being part of the national park system. As the National
Park Service began to acquire land for the corridor, private citizens who once maintained the trail
through informal handshake agreements became directly involved in one of the most complex
federal land acquisition programs in U.S. history. Local communities responded to the unusual
public private partnership in a variety of ways?from cooperation to contestation. This analysis
reveals the relational, complex, and fluid nature of the categories of "public" and "private" and
demonstrates how a dynamic interplay of power and authority between different interests blazed
the way for the kinds of public-private partnerships that have come to characterize twenty-first
century environmental policy.

Their Keywords:
Trails​, Hiking trails, Landowners, National parks,Land conservation, Nature trails, Public
land,Volunteerism, Private land, Environmental history

Our Notes:
This article follows the long and what the author refers to as “tortuous” road in acquiring lands to
build the Appalachian Trail. “An analysis of how the categories "private" and "public" were
employed during the construction of the Appalachian Trail offers a complex view of the
relationship between the centralized state and decentralized citizen actor.” (663) Many of the
decentralized citizen actors would consider the loss of their land for the trail an abuse of ​eminent
domain.

Moriarty, Marilyn. "The Taking of Dead Horse Hollow: Eminent Domain Abuse." The
Antioch Review 71, no. 2 (2013): 208-222.

No published abstract
Their Keywords:

Our Notes:
This is in fact a creative nonfiction essay, cataloguing Edd Jenning’s fight against a succession of
eminent domain​ acquisitions of his land that has generationally belonged to his family. It
personalizes the experience of ​eminent domain​ abuse in a manner that humanizes the legal
battle. For our purposes it rounds out a lot of the statistical data on ​eminent domain​ and offers a
counter perspective to other articles that fix the use of ​eminent domain​ as a necessary evil for
conservation and infrastructure.

Our Keywords:
Eminent Domain, Displacement,