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Autore |
Stewart Howard MacDonald |
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Titolo |
Views of the Salish Sea : one hundred and fifty years of change around the Strait of Georgia / / Howard MacDonald Stewart |
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Madeira Park, British Columbia : , : Harbour Publishing, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (371 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Georgia, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.) Historical geography |
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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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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Sea as Barrier, the Sea as Highway -- 2. Empty Land or Stolen Land? The Colonial Strait -- 3. Resource Mining by the Sea: Mining and Forestry -- 4. Resource Mining in the Sea: Fish and Oysters -- 5. The Strait as Waste Dump -- 6. Recreation on the Restorative Strait -- 7. Conclusions and Reflections on the Twenty-First-Century Strait -- Notes -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Interweaving geography, biology and resource economics with history, this is a deft examination of the Strait of Georgia from the 1850s to the modern era. |
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