A great aridness
Subtitle: climate change and the future of the American southwest
By: William deBuys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780199778928
Subjects: Effect of global warming on; Water-supply; Droughts; Environmental conditions; Climatic changes
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: High blue : the great downshift of dryness; title: Oracle : global-change-type drought; title: Sand Canyon : vanishing acts; title: Janos : a mirror in time; title: Lava Falls : the blood of oasis civilization; title: The canal at river's end : thirsty Arizona; title: Highway 79 revisited : "mega" trends in the Sun Corridor; title: Apache Pass : crossing the line; title: Mogollon Plateau : fires present and future; title: Mt. Graham : the biopolitics of change; title: Hawikku : welcome to the Anthropocene.