Fish versus Power

An Environmental History of the Fraser River

Bibliographic Data

ID3326872
AuthorsDianne Newell (University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Matthew W Evenden, Matthew Evenden (0000-0001-9694-9090, University of British Columbia)
Year2005
Volume36
Issue4
Pages526
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWestern Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25443260
OpenAlexW1564536476
LanguageEN
Citations received19

Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores the transnational forces that shaped the river, the changing knowledge and practices of science, and the role of environmental change in shaping environmental debate. The Fraser is the world's most productive salmon river; it is also a large river with enormous waterpower potential. Very few rivers in the developed world have remained undammed. On the Fraser, however, fish - not dams - triumphed, and this book seeks to explain why."--BOOK JACKET

Biology · Economic history · Environmental history · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Index (typography · Power (physics · World Wide Web · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · History

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