Wallace Stegner Lecture – serie
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Dance, Don’t Drive
Resilient Thinking for Turbulent Times
Av Chip Ward
Häftad, 2012
60 kr
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Warnings regarding our unsustainable lifestyles have become so commonplace that eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the topic. Chip Ward aims to change that. Seeking to convey the importance of living sustainably, he reframes the discourse to point out the consequences we face and the choices we …
Eating Our Way Through the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2022
91 kr
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Originally delivered as the Stegner Lecture at the 2020 annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, Jessica Fanzo here explores how, in the context of the broad global trends of population growth, climate crisis, and inequitable food availability, food …
Law and the Living Colorado River
Häftad, 2024
83 kr
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Law and the Living Colorado River asserts that the so-called Law of the River—the vast assemblage of interstate compacts, international treaties, federal and state statutes, regulations, contracts, and other legal documents governing use and management of the Colorado River—ignores the needs of the …
Great Salt Lake
A Perspective from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Häftad, 2024
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The Great Salt Lake is deeply tied to the identity and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Latter-day Saints settled in the Great Basin, they relied on the Great Salt Lake for industry and recreation. Bishop W. Christopher Waddell explains that today, given the crisis …
Framing the Problem
Causes and Consequences of a Shrinking Great Salt Lake
Häftad, 2024
91 kr
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The Great Salt Lake ecosystem is on the verge of collapse due to unsustainably large water diversions, the ongoing megadrought, and climate change. Plummeting lake levels will result in a cascade of tremendous economic, ecological, and human health problems if no action is taken. One consequence of …
Indigenous Perspective to Climate and Environment
Av Darren Parry
Häftad, 2024
91 kr
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The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not “untouched” or “wild” as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is superior to Indigenous …
Great Salt Lake Food Chains
Fragility and Resiliency
Häftad, 2024
91 kr
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Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten million birds reliant on the lake, Baxter …
Our Energy Future
Häftad, 2025
83 kr
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Lecture at the 2024 Wallace Stegner Symposium of the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, delivered to address the future of energy in the United States.
Twilight of Self Reliance
Frontier Values and Contemporary America
Av Wallace Stegner, Rick Weathermon
Häftad, 2008
65 kr
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We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but as flawed glory and exhilarating task.' –-from The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary AmericaThe occasions of the …
Ownership, Property, and Sustainability
Av Joseph Sax
Häftad, 2011
58 kr
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What is a landowner's responsibility to habitat preservation? In the past, owning land meant arranging it for one's own use, but this in turn generally resulted in destroyed or degraded habitat. In today's world, loss of biodiversity has become a public concern. Does the landowner now have an …
Classic Lessons from a Little Fish in a Pork Barrel
Featuring the Notorious Story of the Endangered Snail Darter and the TVA's Final Dam
Häftad, 2012
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The “snail darter story” has become an iconic episode in modern American history—a classic case regularly voted one of the top three Supreme Court environmental decisions but also enjoying dubious public notoriety as “The Most Extreme Environmental Case Ever.” Yet most of the snail darter story has …
Past and Future Yellowstones
Finding Our Way in Wonderland
Häftad, 2015
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Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park. By varying the scale of observation—from a …
Managing Climate Risks in Resilient Cities
Häftad, 2017
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Discussions on climate change generally focus on the necessity of reducing carbon emissions, while recognizing that such action will take a long time to materialize. MIT professor Lawrence Susskind contends that communities can take action to combat climate change now, through steps that have the …
Debunking Creation Myths About America's Public Lands
Häftad, 2018
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In recent times several “creation myths” have gained currency about how the United States government came to own and manage—for broad, mostly protective purposes—nearly one-third of the nation's land. Controversies such as President Trump's shrinking the boundaries of Grand Staircase Escalante and …
