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Author DeBuys, William, 1949-

Title A great aridness : climate change and the future of the American southwest / William deBuys.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  555.6979 DEBUYS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  551.6979 DeBUYS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  551.6978 D35    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  551.6979 DEBUYS    Check Shelf
Description xii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-351) and index.
Contents 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 -- Mogollan Plateau: fires present and future -- Mt. Graham: the biopolitics of change -- Hawikku: welcome to the Anthropocene.
Subject Climatic changes -- Southwest, New.
Water-supply -- Effect of global warming on -- Southwest, New.
Droughts -- Southwest, New.
Southwest, New -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9780199778928
0199778922
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