Downhill Slide Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment
| Author/creator | Clifford, Hal Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | San Francisco : Sierra Club Books Berkeley : University of California Press [Distributor] |
| Description | 256 p. 22.300 x 014.700 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation 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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />Hard-hitting and carefully researched,<i>Downhill Slide</i>is indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, or cares about what is happening to America's alpine communities. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002070570 |
| ISBN | 9781578050710 |
| ISBN | 1578050715 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9781578050710 |
| Stock number | 00024101 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |