River Basins Of The American West

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870715747

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River Basins of the American West by Char Miller Pdf

"Examining water issues through the lens of major Western U.S. watersheds, River Basins of the American West explores why water has been, and remains, the West's most essential and controversial subject." "Char Miller has organized writings collected from the pages of High Country News, the voice of Western environmental issues, into sections defined by the great watersheds of the West. Arguably, these drainage systems form the real boundaries of the West, and current water conflicts have their roots in development that ignored this reality." "Contributors to this book - among them activists, scholars, scientists, and some of the nation's finest environmental journalists - probe the intense differences and disagreements over water rights across the West, and present the positive developments toward a lasting solution to the most fraught issue the West faces." --Book Jacket.

Author : Richard White,John M. Findlay
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295802206

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Power and Place in the North American West by Richard White,John M. Findlay Pdf

Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several angles�Indians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economy�to gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history. The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises.

Author : Richard A. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806116536

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Great Surveys of the American West by Richard A. Bartlett Pdf

After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay west of the hundredth meridian in the vast American wilderness. Parties led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, medical doctor turned geologist, Clarence King, aristocrat and intellectual, John Wesley Powell, conqueror of the Colorado River, and Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, determined military man and scientist, roamed over the wild country during the years 1867-79, observing, analyzing, mapping, and at the end of each season, returning to Washington to publish their results. For the first time in book form, Richard A. Bartlett has recreated for the reader the hardships, both physical and financial, the discoveries, and the high adventures of the bold, headstrong, and often brilliant men of the Great Surveys as they climbed the Rockies, explored the Yellowstone, or battled the Colorado.

Author : Isaac M. Castellano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030231507

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Water Scarcity in the American West by Isaac M. Castellano Pdf

This book examines the role of unauthorized water use in the American West (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and the coming demand for water accountability. Arguing that status quo responses to unauthorized water use (or water theft) and the protection of water rights are largely inadequate, this title examines the far-ranging impacts of this lackluster response on issues ranging from food production to urban livability, and concludes that there will be intense pressure at both the federal and state level to address these issues. Utilizing qualitative and quantitative models and collaborative management literature to identify ideal approaches, this project ultimately seeks to address this major crisis of states’ legitimacy and analyze potential solutions under the ever-expanding threat of climate change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471471981

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Environmental Geology Laboratory by Anonim Pdf

This easy-to-use, easy-to-learn-from laboratory manual for Environmental Geology employs an interactive question-and-answer format that engages the reader at the start of each exercise. Taking a developmental approach to learning, this manual emphasizes principles over rote memorization. The entire manual is written in a clear and inviting style, and includes scores of helpful hints to coach students as they tackle problems.

Author : Derek R. Everett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780806146133

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Creating the American West by Derek R. Everett Pdf

Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American. Everett examines how settlers lobbied for boundaries and how politicians imposed them. He examines the origins of boundary-making in the United States from the colonial era through the Louisiana Purchase. Case studies then explore the ethnic, sectional, political, and economic angles of boundaries. Everett first examines the boundaries between Arkansas and its neighboring Native cultures, and the pseudo war between Missouri and Iowa. He then traces the lines splitting the Oregon Country and the states of California and Nevada, and considers the ethnic and political consequences of the boundary between New Mexico and Colorado. He explains the evolution of the line splitting the Dakotas, and concludes with a discussion of ways in which state boundaries can contribute toward new interpretations of borderlands history. A major theme in the history of state boundaries is the question of whether to use geometric or geographic lines—in other words, lines corresponding to parallels and meridians or those fashioned by natural features. With the distribution of western land, Everett shows, geography gave way to geometry and transformed the West. The end of boundary-making in the late nineteenth century is not the end of the story, however. These lines continue to complicate a host of issues including water rights, taxes, political representation, and immigration. Creating the American West shows how the past continues to shape the present.

Author : Norris Hundley (Jr.)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0520260104

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Water and the West by Norris Hundley (Jr.) Pdf

Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles--national, state, and local--that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over the West's most valuable, and contentious, resource.

Author : Lynette de Silva,Chris Maser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000479133

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Resolving Water Conflicts Workbook by Lynette de Silva,Chris Maser Pdf

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills. Built on case-studies analysis and hands-on real-life applications, it addresses issues of water insecurity of marginalized systems and communities, global water viability, institutional resilience, and the inclusion of faith-based traditions for climate action. The authors assess the complexities of climate challenges and explain how to create sustainable, effective, and efficient water approaches for an improved ecological and socioeconomic future within the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : UOM:39015013983088

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The American West by Anonim Pdf

Author : Interior Department
Publisher : Reclamation Bureau
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0160913640

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Bureau of Reclamation by Interior Department Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "

Author : Tamra Pearson d'Estree,Bonnie B.G. Colby
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402081293

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Braving the Currents by Tamra Pearson d'Estree,Bonnie B.G. Colby Pdf

This thoughtful reference identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. The authors examine 28 "success" criteria from many angles, present a method for systematically considering all the elements necessary for successful environmental CR, and then apply this analytic framework to eight specific western U.S. water conflicts.

Author : Eric P. Perramond
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971127

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Unsettled Waters by Eric P. Perramond Pdf

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story of resistance involving communal water cultures, Native rights and cleaved identities, clashing experts, and unintended outcomes. Whether the state can alter adjudications to meet the water demands in the twenty-first century will have serious consequences.

Author : Michael J. Harrower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107134652

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Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology by Michael J. Harrower Pdf

Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

Author : Charles L. Abernethy
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Watershed management
ISBN : 9789290904489

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Intersectoral Management on River Basins by Charles L. Abernethy Pdf

There are four papers focusing on the special recent experience of South Africa, as it replaces former inequitable water laws with a new one tq reflect its major pOlitical reorientation, and at the same time takes this opportunity of change to bring in several other principles of modern thinking about water, with a focus on participation by stakeholders, on the river-basin as management unit, on financial principles such as "users pay" and "polluters pay;' and on the potential role of access to water in addressing social issues such as poverty and gender discrimination. Conflict / Social aspects / Gender / Water law / Institutional constraints / Financing / Investment / Water scarcity / Water users' associations / Privatization / User charges / Water allocation / Political aspects / Water use efficiency / Water policy / Developing countries / Agricultural development / Poverty / Watercourses / River basins / Water management

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210024990416

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Hydrology of Area 50, Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Coal Provinces, Wyoming and Montana by Anonim Pdf