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Series
Bulletin volume 1
Publisher
State Commission on Conservation and Development, Division of Water Resources
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This social history of local political activism tells the story of the decades-long fight to save Green Springs, Virginia, illuminating the economic tradeoffs of protecting the environment, the origins of NIMBYism, the changing nature of local control, and the surprising power of history to advance public policy. Rae Ely faced long odds when she launched a campaign in 1970 to stop a prison, then a strip mine, in Green Springs. The local political...
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