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Overtapped Oasis

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Author : Marc Reisner
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 1990-02

Overtapped Oasis written by Marc Reisner and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02 with Nature categories.

Overtapped Oasis analyzes the West's water allocation system from top to bottom and offers dozens of revolutionary proposals for increased efficiency and policy reform. Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates argue that the West's underlying problem is not a shortage of water but the inefficient use of it, a problem caused by a bewildering tangle of federal subsidy programs, restrictive state water codes, anachronistic irrigation practices and -- perhaps most important -- resistance to reform.

Overtapped Oasis

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Author : Marc Reisner
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 1990-02-01

Overtapped Oasis

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Author : Marc Reisner
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 1990-02-01

Modern American Environmentalists

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Author : George A. Cevasco
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-06-15

Modern American Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Modern American Environmentalists profiles the lives and contributions of nearly 140 major figures during the twentieth-century environmental movement. Included are iconic environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Gifford Pinchot, and Al Gore, and important but less expected names, including John Steinbeck and Allen Ginsberg. The entries recount how each individual became active in environmental conservation, detail his or her significant contributions, trace the influence of each on future efforts, and discuss the person's legacy. The individuals selected for the book displayed either an unparalleled commitment to the conservation, preservation, restoration, and enhancement of the natural environment or made a major contribution to the growth of environmentalism during its first century. With a foreword by environmental historian Everett I. Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement.

Forum For Applied Research And Public Policy

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Forum For Applied Research And Public Policy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Policy sciences categories.

A Study Guide For Mark Reisner S Cadillac Desert The American West And Its Disappearing Water

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016

A Study Guide For Mark Reisner S Cadillac Desert The American West And Its Disappearing Water written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Criticism categories.

A Study Guide for Mark Reisner's "Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

America As Second Creation

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Author : David E. Nye
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004-09-17

America As Second Creation written by David E. Nye and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-17 with History categories.

An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation. While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.