From Reclamation to Sustainability
Subtitle: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780870815331
Subjects: Agricultural engineering & machinery; Aquaculture & fishing: practice & techniques; Conservation of the environment; Management of land & natural resources; Agricultural Use Of Water Resources; Water And Marine Resources Management; Nature; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Western & Pacific Coast states; Environmental Science; Real Estate - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; History; Irrigation; Reclamation of land; Water-supply; West (U.S.)
Description: "From Reclamation to Sustainability tells the story of four places in the West - the Arkansas Valley and the Grand Valley of Colorado, the Truckee-Carson basins of California and Nevada, and the Yakima Basin in Washington - where development and use of water, primarily for irrigated agriculture, have been central to economic and social development. In these places (and many others), the reclamation vision that helped settle the West now competes with a vision of a sustainable West."--BOOK JACKET.