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Views of the Salish Sea : One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madeira Park : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781550178043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Views of the Salish SeaDDC classification:
  • 917.113
LOC classification:
  • F1089.G44 .S749 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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