Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia (Nature | History | Society) - Softcover

Peyton, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 077483305X ISBN 13: 9780774833059

Publisher: UBC Press, 2017

Synopsis

In the latter half of the twentieth century, industrial pioneers came to British Columbia with grand plans for resource development projects, many of which never materialized. Unbuilt Environments argues that these kinds of projects have lasting impacts on the natural and human environment – even when they fail. Jonathan Peyton examines a range of archival materials in five case studies. Looking at a closed asbestos mine, an abandoned rail grade, an imagined series of hydroelectric installations, a failed LNG export facility, and a fuel transmission line, Peyton finds that past development failures continue to shape contemporary resource conflicts in the region.

About this title

Book Description

This book looks at the long-term social and environmental effects of imagined, abandoned, and failed resource-development schemes in northwest British Columbia.

About the Author

Jonathan Peyton is assistant professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 077483305X
• ISBN 13: 9780774833059
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 276