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Western Water A to Z : The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource /

"Western Water A-to-Z is the first field guide dedicated to Western water. Reinventing this twentieth-century genre for a twenty-first-century audience, Crifasi describes water projects, the culture of water, the ecosystems that water projects have created or destroyed, and the reliance of mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Crifasi, Robert. R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denver : University Press of Colorado, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Why Western Water A to Z? Introduction ; About the scope of this book ; The organization of Western Water A to Z ; About the photography ; What is the American West? ; History of the West and its environment : a land of scarcity? ; Conquest ; Prior appropriation and the institutions of water management ; Water development
  • Western water A to Z
  • Thinking about Western water in the twenty-first century.