Name: A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (en Inglés)
SKU: 18826322
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Author: Debuys, William
ISBN: 9780199974672

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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

William Debuys

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8x13.7x2.5 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0199974675

ISBN13

9780199974672

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Ecología, la biosfera
Historia local

A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (en Inglés)

William Debuys (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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. In A 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 interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the MediterraneanBasin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.