Science Be Dammed : How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River /

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Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management--and perils in the mismanagement--of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kuhn, Eric (Autor), Fleck, John, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Errors, Scientific.
Water resources development > Government policy > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Water-supply > Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Colorado, a river in deficit
  • The origin of conflict
  • The Colorado River Compact
  • Selling the compact
  • The troubling science of E.C. Larue
  • The Sibert report : a lost opportunity
  • Boulder canyon project act
  • More marketing than science
  • The 1930s--drought, development, and litigation
  • The treaty with Mexico
  • The argumentative wisdom of George E.P. Smith
  • "A natural menace becomes a national resource"
  • The 1948 Upper Colorado River Basin Compact
  • Upper basin development moves forward
  • Arizona v. California
  • The Central Arizona Project : draining the last drop
  • Tree rings and climate change
  • Reality sets in
  • A bridge to an uncertain future
  • Finally listening to Larue?
  • Epilogue : "an unknown distance yet to run."

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