危機下の米国西部:土地の汚染と再生の科学、神話、政治<br>The American West at Risk : Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery

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危機下の米国西部:土地の汚染と再生の科学、神話、政治
The American West at Risk : Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 640 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780195142051
  • DDC分類 333.731370978

基本説明

Summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges facing the 11 contiguous arid western United States.

Full Description

The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United StatesAmerica's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies-and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land.

Contents

INTRODUCTION. OBEYING NATURE ; 1. Once and Future Trees ; 2. Harvesting the Future ; 3. Raiding the Range ; 4. Digging to China ; 5. Routes of Ruin ; 6. Legacies of War ; 7. Creating the Nuclear Wasteland ; 8. No Habitat But Our Own ; 9. The Last Drops ; 10. Garbage of the Golden West ; 11. Tragedy of the Playground ; 12. Driving to the End of America's Birthright ; 13. Nature's Way ; CONCLUSIONS. THE NEEDS OF OUR POSTERITY ; APPENDIX 1. CONSERVING U.S. PUBLIC LANDS-A CHRONOLOGY ; APPENDIX 2. BEST INTENTIONS-FEDERAL WASTE DISPOSAL LAWS ; APPENDIX 3. EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE EARTH ; APPENDIX 4. BIO-CHEMICAL WAR AND YOU ; APPENDIX 5. DESTROYER OF THE WORLDS ; APPENDIX 6. PLUTONIUM FIELDS FOREVER ; APPENDIX 7. BOMBS FOR PEACE ; APPENDIX 8. THE BUNKER BUSTER FANTASY ; APPENDIX 9. US AND THEM-THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD OIL RESERVES ; APPENDIX 10. "DEMOCRATIZING" ENERGY-HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS ; GLOSSARY ; NOTES ; INDEX

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