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UNINA9910511986103321 |
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Autore |
Rudin Ronald |
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Against the Tides : Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada's Maritime Marshlands |
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Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Collana |
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Nature | History | Society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Flood dams and reservoirs |
Salt marshes |
Reclamation of land |
History |
Fundy, Bay of History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Poets among the Engineers -- Preface: In Search of the MMRA -- A Note on Sources -- Prologue: Whose Knowledge? Which Nature? -- Part 1: Second Nature -- 1 Out to Sea -- 2 Reconstruction -- Part 2: Third Nature -- 3 Dam Projects -- 4 Legacies -- Epilogue: Meet the Grand Pre Marsh Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Against the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it. |
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