Great Aridness Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

Name: Great Aridness Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
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ISBN: 9780199974672

ISBN-10: 0199974675

ISBN-13: 9780199974672

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Authors: William deBuys

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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.InA Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 8.20" wide x 5.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880



List of Maps


Preface


Introduction: The Tracks at Cedar Springs



High Blue: The Great Downshift of Dryness



Oracle: Global-Change-Type Drought



Sand Canyon: Vanishing Acts



Janos: A Mirror in Time



Lava Falls: The Blood of Oasis Civilization



The Canal at River's End: Thirsty Arizona



Highway 79 Revisited: "Mega" Trends in the Sun Corridor



Apache Pass: Crossing the Line



Mogollon Plateau: Fires Present and Future



Mt. Graham: The Biopolitics of Change



Hawikku: Welcome to the Anthropocene


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index