The American West at risk : science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery /

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The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Wilshire, Howard Gordon, 1926- (Autor), Nielson, Jane E. (Autor), Hazlett, Richard W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Ã2008.
Temas:
Nature conservation > West (U.S.)
Conservation of natural resources > West (U.S.)
Nature > Effect of human beings on > West (U.S.)
Land use > Environmental aspects > West (U.S.)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Conservation of natural resources
Ecology
Land use > Environmental aspects
Nature conservation
Nature > Effect of human beings on
West (U.S.) > Environmental conditions.
West United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Obeying nature
  • Once and future trees
  • Harvesting the future
  • Raiding the range
  • Digging to China
  • Routes of ruin
  • Legacies of war
  • Creating the nuclear wasteland
  • No habitat but our own
  • The last drops
  • Garbage of the Golden West
  • Tragedy of the playground
  • Driving to the end of America's birthright
  • Nature's way
  • The needs of our posterity
  • Appendix 1 : Conserving U.S. public lands : a chronology
  • Appendix 2 : Best intentions : federal waste disposal laws
  • Appendix 3 : Everything comes from the earth
  • Appendix 4 : Biochemical war and you
  • Appendix 5 : Destroyer of the worlds
  • Appendix 6 : Plutonium fields forever
  • Appendix 7 : Bombs for peace
  • Appendix 8 : The bunker buster fantasy
  • Appendix 9 : U.S. and them : the United States and world oil reserves
  • Appendix 10 : "Democratizing" energy : hydrogen fuel cells.

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