Branching out, digging in [[electronic resource] ] : environmental advocacy and agenda setting / / Sarah Pralle

• Autore: Pralle Sarah Beth
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7509711
• Soggetto topico: Forest policy - British Columbia - Clayoquot Sound Region; Forest policy - California, Northern; Forest management - British Columbia - Clayoquot Sound Region; Forest management - California, Northern; Environmental policy - British Columbia - Clayoquot Sound Region; Environmental policy - California, Northern
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The expansion of conflict in British Columbia forest politics -- pt. 2. The containment of conflict in Northern California.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. Branching Out, Digging In examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United States and Canada.Late in 1993 citizens from around the world mobilized on behalf of saving old-growth forests in Clayoquot Sound. Yet, at the same time only a very few took note of an even larger reserve of public land at risk in northern California. Both cases, the Clayoquot Sound controversy
• Titolo autorizzato: Branching out, digging in
• ISBN: 1-58901-280-1; 1-4356-2750-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451815803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American governance and public policy.