1 Socio-economic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction: a discussion and conceptual model Thomas G. Measham David A Fleming Heinz Schandl This is a PREPRINT of paper submitted to Global Environmental Change. It has subsequently been revised and published under the new title ‘A Conceptual Model of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Extraction’. It is accessible at: http://dx.doi.org//10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.12.002