The American West at Risk
Subtitle: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: May 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780195142051
Subjects: Management of land & natural resources; PHYSICS; Pollution & threats to the environment; Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; Development - Sustainable Development; Science / Ecology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Obeying Nature
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 1
title: Once and Future Trees
pagenum: 9; label: Chapter 2
title: Harvesting the Future
pagenum: 39; label: Chapter 3
title: Raiding the Range
pagenum: 77; label: Chapter 4
title: Digging to China
pagenum: 100; label: Chapter 5
title: Routes of Ruin
pagenum: 137; label: Chapter 6
title: Legacies of War
pagenum: 158; label: Chapter 7
title: Creating the Nuclear Wasteland
pagenum: 181; label: Chapter 8
title: No Habitat but Our Own
pagenum: 213; label: Chapter 9
title: The Last Drops
pagenum: 230; label: Chapter 10
title: Garbage of the Golden West
pagenum: 255; label: Chapter 11
title: Tragedy of the Playground
pagenum: 287; label: Chapter 12
title: Driving to the End of America's Birthright
pagenum: 308; label: Chapter 13
title: Nature's Way
pagenum: 347; label: Conclusion
title: The Needs of Our Posterity
pagenum: 365; label: Appendix 1
title: Conserving U.S. Public Lands: A Chronology
pagenum: 376; label: Appendix 2
title: Best Intentions: Federal Waste Disposal Laws
pagenum: 379; label: Appendix 3
title: Everything Comes from the Earth
pagenum: 383; label: Appendix 4
title: Biochemical War and You
pagenum: 387; label: Appendix 5
title: Destroyer of the Worlds
pagenum: 390; label: Appendix 6
title: Plutonium Fields Forever
pagenum: 395; label: Appendix 7
title: Bombs for Peace
pagenum: 399; label: Appendix 8
title: The Bunker Buster Fantasy
pagenum: 405; label: Appendix 9
title: U.S. and Them: The United States and World Oil Reserves
pagenum: 410; label: Appendix 10
title: "Democratizing" Energy: Hydrogen Fuel Cells
pagenum: 417; title: Glossary
pagenum: 421; title: Notes
pagenum: 444; title: Index
pagenum: 595