Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water - Hardcover

Phillips, Fred M.; Hall, G. Emlen; Black, Mary

 
9780826349439: Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0826349439 ISBN 13: 9780826349439
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2011

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The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.

This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Fred M. Phillips directs the hydrology program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.



G. Emlen Hall is a professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of New Mexico. His most recent book is High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (UNM Press).



Mary E. Black has worked as an anthropological linguist, editor/writer, and librarian for the University of Arizona and as an editor of Southwest Hydrology. She currently serves as a liaison with tribes, federal agencies, and scientists.

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This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.

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Verlag
University of New Mexico Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826349439
ISBN 13 
9780826349439
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
252
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