Aridity and Man
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Desert and Arid Zones Research
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Desert and Arid Zones Research
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science Staff
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780598274823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Desert and Arid Zones Research
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William deBuys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0199779104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 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: Monique Mainguet
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3662039060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the intersection of environmental science and human biology, this book deals with dry ecosystems, the societies so affected, and the inventiveness of those living under such conditions. It also tries to answer the question of whether long-lasting development is possible in dry environments.
Author: George S. Lensing
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780807129722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fruitful pairing of literary and biographical interpretation follows Wallace Stevens’s poetry through the lens of its dominant metaphor—the seasons of nature—and illuminates the poet’s personal life experiences reflected there. From Stevens’s first collection, Harmonium (1923), to his last poems written shortly before his death in 1955, George S. Lensing offers clear and detailed examination of Stevens’s seasonal poetry, including extensive discussions of “Autumn Refrain,” “The Snow Man,” “The World as Meditation,” and “Credences of Summer.” Drawing upon a vast knowledge of the poet, Lensing argues that Stevens’s pastoral poetry of the seasons assuaged a profound and persistent personal loneliness. An important scholarly assessment of a major twentieth-century modernist, Wallace Stevens and the Seasons also serves as an appealing introduction to Stevens.
Author: David Lavender
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780826307361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.
Author: Luis Santos Pereira
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-03-22
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1402095791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of water hampers industrial, urban and tourism development, forcing restrictions on other sectors, especially agriculture; health problems arise as the deterioration of ground and surface waters favours water-borne diseases, which flourish in the absence of decent water distribution and sewerage systems. Water conflicts still arise in areas under stress, while water for nature has become a vanishing priority in such zones. This book is a guide to the establishment of regional and/or local guidelines for developing and implementing new ideas for coping with water scarcity. The basic premise underlying the book is that water scarcity will persist, so personal, human and society-wide skills will be needed to cope with it while living in harmony with the necessary environmental constraints. The book provides basic information to assist decision makers, water managers, engineers, agronomists, social scientists and other professions (and their students) in formulating coherent, hopefully harmonious and consolidated views on the issue. Guidelines are also given for introducing the general public to the concept of water scarcity and how to deal with it.