A great aridness : climate change and the future of the American southwest /

With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale cat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: DeBuys, William, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Southwest, New.
Water-supply > Effect of global warming on > Southwest, New.
Droughts > Southwest, New.
Climat > Changements > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Sécheresses > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
NATURE > Weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatic changes
Droughts
Ecology
Water-supply > Effect of global warming on
Southwest, New > Environmental conditions.
États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Conditions environnementales.
New Southwest
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • High blue : the great downshift of dryness
  • Oracle : global-change-type drought
  • Sand Canyon : vanishing acts
  • Janos : a mirror in time
  • Lava Falls : the blood of oasis civilization
  • The canal at river's end : thirsty Arizona
  • Highway 79 revisited : "mega" trends in the Sun Corridor
  • Apache Pass : crossing the line
  • Mogollon Plateau : fires present and future
  • Mt. Graham : the biopolitics of change
  • Hawikku : welcome to the Anthropocene.

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