Requiem For The Santa Cruz
DOWNLOAD
Download Requiem For The Santa Cruz PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Requiem For The Santa Cruz book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Requiem For The Santa Cruz
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert H. Webb
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2014-06-12
Requiem For The Santa Cruz written by Robert H. Webb and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Nature categories.
"Over the millennia, the drainageway we now call the Santa Cruz River has seen many ebbs, flows, and floods. Throughout its long history, the river has meandered. It has flowed on the surface. It has carved deep fissures, and it has widened and narrowed.As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these are events that also have taken place in historic times. Authored by an esteemed group of scientists, Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river, which flows through Tucson, Arizona, as a prime example of arroyo cutting, a process where heavy rains cut down through rock to create deep channeling. Each chapter provides a unique opportunity to chronicle the arroyo legacy, evaluate its causes, and consider its aftermath. Using more than a century of observations and collections, the authors reconstruct the physical, biological, and cultural circumstances of the river's entrenchment, widening, and subsequent partial filling. Today, communities everywhere face this conundrum: do we manageephemeral rivers through urban areas for flood control, or do we attempt to restore them to some previous state of naturalness? Requiem for the Santa Cruz carefully explores the channel-change legacy, the efficacy of attempts to stabilize it, and the nascent attempts at river restoration to give a long-term perspective on management of rivers in arid lands. Tied together by authors who have committed their life's work to the study of arid-land rivers, this book offers a touching and scientifically grounded requiem for the Santa Cruz and every southwestern river"--
Requiem For The Santa Cruz
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert H. Webb
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Requiem For The Santa Cruz written by Robert H. Webb and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Nature categories.
In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods. It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill. Groundwater was never far from the surface, in places outcropping to feed marshlands or ciénegas. In these wet places, arroyos would heal quickly as the river channel revegetated, the thriving vegetation trapped sediment, and the channel refilled. As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these aridland geomorphic processes also took place in the valley as Tucson grew from mud-walled village to modern metropolis, with one exception: historical water development and channel changes proceeded hand in glove, each taking turns reacting to the other, eventually lowering the water table and killing a unique habitat that can no longer recover or be restored. Authored by an esteemed group of scientists, Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river—the premier example of historic arroyo cutting during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when large floodflows cut down through unconsolidated valley fill to form deep channels in the major valleys of the American Southwest. Each chapter provides a unique opportunity to chronicle the arroyo legacy, evaluate its causes, and consider its aftermath. Using more than a collective century of observations and collections, the authors reconstruct the circumstances of the river’s entrenchment and the groundwater mining that ultimately killed the marshlands, a veritable mesquite forest, and a birdwatcher's paradise. Today, communities everywhere face this conundrum: do we manage ephemeral rivers through urban areas for flood control, or do we attempt to restore them to some previous state of perennial naturalness? Requiem for the Santa Cruz carefully explores the legacies of channel change, groundwater depletion, flood control, and nascent attempts at river restoration to give a long-term perspective on management of rivers in arid lands. Tied together by authors who have committed their life’s work to the study of aridland rivers, this book offers a touching and scientifically grounded requiem for the Santa Cruz and every southwestern river.
Requiem For Ground Zero
DOWNLOAD
Author : Steven Berkoff
language : en
Publisher: Amber Lane Press
Release Date : 2002
Requiem For Ground Zero written by Steven Berkoff and has been published by Amber Lane Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 categories.
Requiem For Revolution
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ruth Leacock
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1990
Requiem For Revolution written by Ruth Leacock and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Political Science categories.
An examination of the Brazilian revolution of 1964 which was not the revolutionary effort that Kennedy had sought. Yet it bore an American, anti-communist imprint. When the president was overthrown, Washington embraced the new regime and gave generous support throughout the 1960s.
Requiem
DOWNLOAD
Author : Roz Spafford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Requiem written by Roz Spafford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Water Bankruptcy In The Land Of Plenty
DOWNLOAD
Author : Franck Poupeau
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-12-21
Water Bankruptcy In The Land Of Plenty written by Franck Poupeau and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with Nature categories.
As the American Southwest faces its deepest drought in history, this book explores the provocative notion of “water bankruptcy” with a view towards emphasizing the diversity and complexity of water issues in this region. It bridges between the narratives of growth and the strategies or policies adopted to pursue competing agendas and circumvent the inevitable. A window of opportunity provided by this current long-term drought may be used to induce change by dealing with threats that derive from imbalances between growth patterns and available resources, the primary cause of scarcity. A first of its kind, this book was developed through close collaboration of a broad range of natural scientists, social scientists, and resource managers from Europe and United States. It constitutes a collective elaboration of a transdisciplinary approach to unveiling the inner workings of how water was fought for, allocated and used in the American Southwest, with a focus on Arizona. Specifically, it offers an innovative scientific perspective that produces a critical diagnostic evaluation of water management, with a particular view to identifying risks for the Tucson region that is facing continuous urban sprawl and economic growth.
Poet Santa Cruz
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Poet Santa Cruz written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Poets, American categories.
Riparian Research And Management Past Present Future Volume 1
DOWNLOAD
Author : U.S. Department of Agriculture
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-04-06
Riparian Research And Management Past Present Future Volume 1 written by U.S. Department of Agriculture and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-06 with Reference categories.
Fifty years ago, riparian habitats were not recognized for their extensive and critical contributions to wildlife and the ecosystem function of watersheds. This changed as riparian values were identified and documented, and the science of riparian ecology developed steadily. Papers in this volume range from the more mesic northwestern United States to the arid Southwest and Mexico. More than two dozen authors?most with decades of experience?review the origins of riparian science in the western United States, document what is currently known about riparian ecosystems, and project future needs. Topics are widespread and include: interactions with fire, climate change, and declining water; impacts from exotic species; unintended consequences of biological control; the role of small mammals; watershed response to beavers; watershed and riparian changes; changes below large dams; water birds of the Colorado River Delta; and terrestrial vertebrates of mesquite bosques.
Human Rights And Revolutions
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2007-05-15
Human Rights And Revolutions written by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-15 with Political Science categories.
Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutionary and human rights projects. The book convincingly shows the ways in which revolutions have both helped spur new advances in thinking about human rights and produced regimes that commit a range of abuses. Providing an unusually balanced analysis of the changes over time in conceptions of human rights in Western and non-Western contexts, this work offers a unique window into the history of the world during modern times and a fresh context for understanding today's pressing issues. Contributions by: Florence Bernault, Mark Philip Bradley, Sumit Ganguly, Greg Grandin, James N. Green, Lynn Hunt, Yanni Kotsonis, Timothy McDaniel, Kristin Ross, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Alexander Woodside, Marilyn B. Young, David Zaret, and Michael Zuckert
Tucson
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Warnock
language : en
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Release Date : 2019-10-11
Tucson written by John Warnock and has been published by Wheatmark, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-11 with History categories.
This account of the drama in time that is Tucson begins not with the founding of the Presidio San Agustín on August 20, 1775, but with the emergence of Sentinel Peak in geologic deep time. It ends -- "To be continued"-- in 2014. It spans the periods of precontact with Europeans, Spanish colonization, Mexican nationhood, the territorial West, early and Depression era statehood, and the development of metropolitan Tucson after World War II. It offers not one definitive historical account but a collection of stories in which threads appear that may disappear beneath the surface for a while and reappear later, like some desert streams. It leaves spaces for, and invites the stories of, its readers. About the Author John Warnock was born in Tucson and graduated from Tucson High when it was one of the largest high schools in the nation. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, Oxford University in England, and the New York University School of Law. After teaching at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, he returned to Tucson in 1990 to join the English Department at the University of Arizona. He is now Professor Emeritus at UA and resides in Tucson.