Green Empire - The St. Joe Company And the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Ziewitz is an environmental writer whose work has appeared in Sierra, Florida Naturalist, and High County News. She has served as director of the St. Andrews Project, a grassroots effort to revitalize a waterfront community in Panama City, and she is currently a high school teacher in Boy County, Florida. June Wiaz has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her most recent writing includes a chapter in The Book of the Everglades. Environmental history/Florida history Klappentext This bold corporate and environmental history examines the activities of one of the most ambitious players in Florida real estate and how it is changing the political! economic! and ecological landscape of the state's last frontier. Zusammenfassung The St Joe Company is a fiscally powerful force in the real-estate development of northwest Florida! with access to influential people in government. This factual history describes the St Joe Company from the days of its founders to the workings and dealings of its heirs. It is of interest to those concerned with land use and growth management.

Product details

• Authors: University Press of Florida, June Wiaz, Kathryn Ziewitz, Kathryn/ Wiaz Ziewitz
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780813029511
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-2951-1
• No. of pages: 363
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, Business / Economics / Finance