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BL
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653716
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| Main Entry
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DeBuys, William Eno
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| Title & Author
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A great aridness : : climate change and the future of the American southwest /\ William deBuys
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, c2011
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xii, 369 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780199778928
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: 0199778922
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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 -- Mogollon Plateau : fires present and future -- Mt. Graham : the biopolitics of change -- Hawikku : welcome to the Anthropocene
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| Abstract
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With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe
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Climatic changes-- Southwest, New
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Water-supply-- Effect of global warming on-- Southwest, New
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Droughts-- Southwest, New
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Southwest, New, Environmental conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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551.6979
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| LC Classification
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QC903.2.U6D43 2011
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