Name: At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (en Inglés)
SKU: 51482106
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Author: J. I. Little
ISBN: 9780773556409

portada At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (en Inglés)

At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Mcgill Queens Univ Pr

Autor

J. I. Little

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780773556409

N° edición

Categorías

Canadá
Historia de américa

At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast (en Inglés)

J. I. Little (Autor) · Mcgill Queens Univ Pr · Tapa Blanda

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Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting impact on the region. At the Wilderness Edge examines five antidevelopment campaigns in and around Vancouver that reflected a dramatic decline in public support for large-scale commercial and industrial projects. J.I. Little describes the highly effective protests that were instrumental in preserving threatened green spaces on Coal Harbour, Hollyburn Ridge, Bowen Island, Gambier Island, and the Squamish estuary, keeping these important British Columbia landmarks from becoming a high-rise development project, a downhill ski resort, a suburban housing tract, an open-pit copper mine, and a major coal port, respectively. Through detailed analysis of development proposals and protests, government studies, and community responses, Little argues that it was not the usual suspects - 1960s radicalism and anti-establishment youth culture - that initiated and carried out these protests, but rather middle-aged, middle-class, politically engaged citizens, many of whom were women. An engaging study of grassroots politics in action, At the Wilderness Edge sheds new light on the rise of environmental consciousness, a pivotal era in the history of British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.