Views of the Salish Sea : one hundred and fifty years of change around the Strait of Georgia / / Howard MacDonald Stewart
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Madeira Park, British Columbia : , : Harbour Publishing, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 917.113 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Georgia, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.) Historical geography |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Views of the Salish Sea |
| ISBN: | 1-55017-804-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793551403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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