Elizabeth May

Paradise Won

The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1990, Paradise Won has been updated and details the epic 12-year struggle to stop logging in the unique global ecosystem referred to as "Canada's Galapagos."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heritage Group Distribution
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781771604581
• ISBN-10: 1771604581
• Artikelnr.: 60409347

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth May is the Green Party Member of Parliament for the southern Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands and served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006-2019. In the 2011 federal election, Elizabeth made history by being the first Green Party candidate to win a seat in the House of Commons and was re-elected in 2015 and 2019. By a vote of her peers, she was named Parliamentarian of the Year in 2012. In 2015, Newsweek magazine named her one of the world's most influential women. She has a long record as a committed and dedicated advocate - for social justice, the environment, human rights, and pragmatic economic solutions. She is the author of eight books, most recently Who We Are: Reflections on My Life and Canada. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the International Institute for Sustainable Development; vice-chair of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy; executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada; and as a commissioner of the Earth Charter International Council. Elizabeth May lives in Sidney, British Columbia.