America's Fight Over Water

The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94930-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wehr, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Departures 1. Introduction 2. Political and Environmental Sociology: The Möbias Strip of Society and Nature 3. Water in the American West Part Two: Investigations 4. In the Beginning There was Boulder: A Natural Menace Becomes a Natural Resource 5. Grand Coulee: 'Mightiest Thing Ever Built by Man' 6. Glen Canyon: Last of the High Dams 7. Conclusion: Toward an Arrival. Maps. References.

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Wehr is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the California State University, Sacramento.