Irrigated Eden : the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West /
"Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Flege's study of irrigation in southern Idaho's Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators bui...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c1999.
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Colección: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by William Cronon
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Discovering the irrigated landscape
- Genesis: water, earth, and irrigation systems
- Habitat: the irrigated landscape and its biota
- Dividing water: conflist, cooperation, and allocation on the upper Snake River
- Labor and landscape: Irrigated agriculture and work
- From field to market: agricultural production in the irrigated landcape
- Industrial Eden: myth, metaphor, and the irrigated landscape
- Conclusion: World in the making
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.