Building a Green Dam: Environmental Modernism and the Canadian-American Libby Dam Project

This article examines a fundamental shift in ideas about development, from high modernism in the early twentieth century to environmental modernism after 1960, illustrated by the promotion and construction of the Libby Dam Project in the Canadian-American Kootenay River Basin. In the 1940s Canadian...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Pacific Historical Review
Main Author: Huizen, Philip Van
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2010
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.3.418
https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-pdf/79/3/418/611736/phr_2010_79_3_418.pdf