|a Skis and skiing |0 |x Economic aspects |0 |z United States. |a Skis and skiing |0 |x Environmental aspects |0 |z United States. |t From rope tows to real estate - |t Skiing's self-defeating arms race - |t Wall Street comes to the mountain - |t What is land for? A theological schism - |t Selling the new resort - |t Potemkin villages and emerald cities - |t Smokey the Bear, the ski industry's best friend - |t Resort roadkill: the environmental price tag - |t Commuters or communities? - |t Back to the future. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index. |a San Francisco : |b Sierra Club Books, |c 2003. |a Downhill slide : |b why the corporate ski industry is bad for skiing, ski towns, and the environment / |c Hal Clifford. |a WMC |b eng |c WMC |d OCLCQ |d OCL |d BAKER He relates the stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it."-Jacket. He also uncovers the ways in which resorts, much like theme parks, are carefully engineered to separate visitors from their money." "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. "In this expose, 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.
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