The future of the Southern Plains
By: edited by Sherry L. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Sherry Lynn.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Human ecology -- Southwest, New -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Great Plains -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Southwest, New -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Great Plains -- Congresses; Southwest, New -- History -- Congresses; Great Plains -- History -- Congresses; Southwest, New -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses; Great Plains -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses; Southwest, New -- Economic conditions -- Congresses; Great Plains -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "In The Future of the Southern Plains scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future. The contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience."

"Seven historians, one geographer, and a paleoclimatologist contribute a wealth of observation, analysis, and commentary on the environmental characteristics and history of the Southern Plains. They address such themes as failing communities, scarce water, endangered species, and disappearing ways of life - and the possible results of these developments not only in the Southern Plains but elsewhere on the globe."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.
Papers based on a joint William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Dept. of History Sharpe Symposium held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. in spring 2001.