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Downhill Slide by Hal Clifford (PB, 2003) LN, 1st Printing
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN
- 9781578051021
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
ISBN-10
1578051029
ISBN-13
9781578051021
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2780706
Product Key Features
Book Title
Downhill Slide : Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Skiing
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
796.93
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. From Rope Tows to Real Estate 2. Skiing's Self-Defeating Arms Race 3. Wall Street Comes to the Mountain 4. What Is Land For? A Theological Schism 5. Selling the New Resort 6. Potemkin Villages and Emerald Cities 7. Smokey the Bear, the Ski Industry's Best Friend 8. Resort roadkill: The Environmental Price Tag 9. Commuters or Communities? 10. Back to the Future Notes Index
Synopsis
In this impassioned expose, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how their greed is gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself. Chronicling the collision between Wall Street's demand for unceasing revenue growth and the fragile natural and social environments of small mountain communities, Clifford shows how the modern ski industry promotes its product as environmentally friendly, while at the same time creating urban-style problems for mountain villages. He suggests an alternative to this bleak picture in the return-to-the-roots movement that is now beginning to find its voice in many American ski towns, and he relates stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it. Hard-hitting and carefully researched, Downhill Slide is indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, or cares about what is happening to America's alpine communities., In this impassioned exposÉ, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself in a largely futile search for short-term profits. Chronicling the collision between Wall Street's demand for unceasing revenue growth and the fragile natural and social environments of small mountain communities, Clifford shows how the modern ski industry promotes its product as environmentally friendly--even invoking the words and emblems of such environmental icons as Ansel Adams and John Muir--while at the same time creating urban-style problems for mountain villages. He also uncovers the ways in which resorts are carefully engineered to separate visitors from their money, much like theme parks. Clifford suggests an alternative to this bleak picture in the return-to-the-roots movement that is now beginning to find its voice in American ski towns from Mammoth Lakes, California, to Stowe, Vermont. He relates the stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it. Hard-hitting and carefully researched,Downhill Slideis indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, or cares about what is happening to America's alpine communities., Now available in paperback, Downhill Slide is the first investigative analysis of how corporate interests gained control of America's most popular winter sport, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural mountain environment, and skiing itself in the desperate search for short-term profit., In this impassioned expose, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how their greed is gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself. Chronicling the collision between Wall Street's demand for unceasing revenue growth and the fragile natural and social environments of small mountain communities, Clifford shows how the modern ski industry promotes its product as environmentally friendly, while at the same time creating urban-style problems for mountain villages. He suggests an alternative to this bleak picture in the return-to-the-roots movement that is now beginning to find its voice in many American ski towns, andhe relates stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it.Hard-hitting and carefully researched, Downhill Slide is indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, orcares about what is happening to America's alpine communities.
LC Classification Number
GV854.4
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