Title: On the Edge
Description: ""Explores the challenges in the Southwest of learning how to live within a complex natural system while grasping the borderland's historical and environmental frameworks. Investigates the human place in an ecosystem that burns easily and floods often and defies efforts to develop its foothills, canyons, and washes"--Provided by publisher"--
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Mexican-american border region, United states, politics and government, Nature, Natural areas, Effect of human beings on, Natural history, Environmental conditions, Social conditions, Human ecology, NATURE / Essays, Essays