Development of Western Resources – serie
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32 produkter
Watering the Valley
Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
Inbunden, 1991
546 kr
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American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law
Av Lloyd Burton
Häftad, 1991
305 kr
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Provides an overview of current issues in the field of Indian water rights and of the history of United States-Indian legal relations. Burton examines problems in environmental and social justice and also supplies a case-study of the law's failure to fulfil its promises.
River of Promise, River of Peril
Politics of Managing the Missouri River
Inbunden, 1994
546 kr
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Takes a comprehensive look at how and why the Missouri River Basin - now with six major dams and hundreds of miles of navigation canals - has become one of the most significantly altered drainage systems in America. The book also looks at the consequences of this.
America's National Monuments
Politics of Preservation
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1994
305 kr
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By examining the history of the national monuments, from the passage of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to the present, this book traces the evolution of federal preservation. The author shows how laws, policies, personalities, personal and bureaucratic rivalries have affected preservation efforts.
I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again
Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1994
352 kr
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This collection provides a context for the best and most informative letters written by early foresters. The writers illuminate how they were forced to balance the agency's regulatory impulses with the needs of rural communities that depended upon forests for their livelihood.
Colony and Empire
Capitalist Transformation of the American West
Häftad, 1994
342 kr
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This work surveys the way that capitalist ideology and institutions have transformed the West. It focuses on how a region of traders and hunters became an area driven by industrialism.
Federal Land, Western Anger
Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics
Häftad, 1993
342 kr
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Delving beneath the political cliches and shallow media coverage, this text illuminates the underlying reasons for the vitriolic battle that pitted public land users in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming against the federal government's Bureau of land management during the last decade.
American Forests
Nature, Culture, and Politics
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 1997
417 kr
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Highlighting the political, social, and environmental forces that have determined the use and abuse of American forests, this book seeks to challenge forest management and the scientific approach to timber harvesting in national forests.
Empowering the West
Electrical Politics Before FDR
Av Jay Brigham
Inbunden, 1998
629 kr
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This study examines the conflict between public power advocates and the private utility industry over control of the environment before the New Deal. In identifying the political nature of modernization, Brigham tells a story that is also environmental and social.
Smelter Smoke in North America
The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Inbunden, 2000
629 kr
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Provides an analysis of the development of a North American institutional response to continental air pollution. The text chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how efforts to protect the environment evolved.
Devil's Bargains
Tourism in the Twentieth-century American West
Av Hal Rothman
Häftad, 1998
417 kr
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The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders - not just those who visit, but those who control. There's no denying that tourism …
Quest for the Golden Circle
The Four Corners and the Metropolitan West, 1945-1970
Häftad, 2000
342 kr
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Traces the development of the Four Corners region - where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona meet - and its two main industries - tourism and mining - to illustrate how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of the region over the 1950s and 1960s.
Green and Permanent Land
Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Av Randal S. Beeman, James A. Pritchard
Inbunden, 2001
629 kr
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Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, …
Conservation Trusts
Av Sally K. Fairfax, Darler Guenzler
Häftad, 2001
305 kr
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In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a conservation trust helped stabilize and regenerate the damaged area. When bird habitats along the Platte River were threatened by Grayrocks Dam, a similar trust came to their rescue. And if a family wants to protect its land for future generations, …
Fragile Paradise
The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000
Inbunden, 2001
647 kr
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With its white sandy beaches, lush green uplands, and near-perfect weather, the Hawaiian island of Maui is more than a picture postcard: it is a multi-million-dollar tourist attraction that repeatedly has been voted ""best island in the world"" by Conde Nast Traveler readers. Consider, then, the …
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States
Av Eric T. Jones, Rebecca J. McLain m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
445 kr
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A quiet revolution is taking place in America's forests. Once seen primarily as stands of timber, our woodlands are now prized as a rich source of a wide range of commodities, from wild mushrooms and maple sugar to hundreds of medicinal plants whose uses have only begun to be fully realized. Now as …
Selling Yellowstone
Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
Inbunden, 2002
557 kr
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For over a century, Yellowstone National Park has been a monument to wildness in America. But long before flames swept through Yellowstone in 1988, that wildness had come under fire from encroachments that were making the park one of our nation's most commodified pieces of real estate. For as long …
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Av David E. Kromm, Stephen E. White
Inbunden, 1992
315 kr
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Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains
Years of Readjustment, 1920-90
Inbunden, 1993
679 kr
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I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again
Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest
Av Hal Rothman
Inbunden, 1994
423 kr
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This collection provides a context for the best and most informative letters written by early foresters. The writers illuminate how they were forced to balance the agency's regulatory impulses with the needs of rural communities that depended upon forests for their livelihood.
Zuni and the Courts
A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights
Inbunden, 1995
526 kr
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The Zuni have won legal battles related to aboriginal claims, rights and use. This volume provides an overview of these cases and Zuni history. It covers: Spanish law and land grants; tribal aboriginal title; the Navajo wars; US territorial policy; deforestation; erosion; folklore; and more.
Pacific Raincoast
Environment and Culture of an American Eden, 1778-1900
Inbunden, 1996
353 kr
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This work chronicles the struggle for the Douglas-fir region, from the first sustained contact between native American and Euro-American cultures to 1900, when Fredrick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of some of the area completed one of the largest land deals in US history.
American Forests
Nature, Culture, and Politics
Inbunden, 1997
1127 kr
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Highlighting the political, social, and environmental forces that have determined the use and abuse of American forests, this book seeks to challenge forest management and the scientific approach to timber harvesting in national forests.
Bay Cities and Water Politics
The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland
Inbunden, 1998
641 kr
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A comparative history of how Boston and Oakland solved their water shortage problems at the end of the 19th century. It looks at the transformation of the cities, their natural surroundings and politics, applying urban history to environmental concerns and environmental history to urban problems.
Devil's Bargains
Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
Inbunden, 1998
623 kr
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The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders - not just those who visit, but those who control. There's no denying that tourism …
American Indians in the Marketplace
Persistance and Innovation Among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920
Inbunden, 1999
1160 kr
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An exploration of the convergence of cultural identity and economic opportunity in two Native American communities that used community-based industries to generate income and sustain their cultures. It demonstrates how the tribes responded to market and political forces over 50 years.
Conservation Trusts
Av Sally K. Fairfax, Darler Guenzler
Inbunden, 2001
1036 kr
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In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a conservation trust helped stabilize and regenerate the damaged area. When bird habitats along the Platte River were threatened by Grayrocks Dam, a similar trust came to their rescue. And if a family wants to protect its land for future generations, …
Collecting Nature
The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library
Inbunden, 2001
623 kr
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Denver's Conservation Library was established in 1960 as a repository for environmental and conservation documents. In chronicling its history, Andrew Kirk also traces the cultural history of American environmentalism as viewed through the lens of this unique institution.
