Drought in the Southwest, 1942-56
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 410
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Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Strong Gatewood
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of the Interior
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Edger Thomas
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Edgar Thomas
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William deBuys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0199779104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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 catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Published: 1962
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard L. Eddy
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Edgar Thomas
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. Lynn Ingram
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0520268555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty thousand years, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources."--Back cover.