The Southwest Under Stress: National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting

ISBN-13: 9781138471979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Allen V. Kneese

Opis

Examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. This book emphasizes three issues with implications that extend far beyond the Southwest: water; environment; and the future of Native American and other poverty-stricken peoples.

Spis treści

Part I Background; Chapter 1 The Southwest; Chapter 2 A Profile of the Southwest Region; Part II Water in the Southwest; Chapter 3 Water Supply and Use; Chapter 4 Conflicting Claims to Southwestern Water; Part III Air Quality and Other Environmental Issues; Chapter 5 Sketch of National Air Quality Legislation; Chapter 6 Operation of Stationary Source Regulations and a Policy Alternative; Chapter 7 Mobile Sources and Policy Alternatives at the State and Local Level; Chapter 8 Effects of Energy Development on Recreational Resources; Part IV Who Benefits from Economic Development?; Chapter 9 Economic Effects of Large-Scale Energy Development in the Southwest; Chapter 10 The Special Case of the Navajos; Chapter 11 A Perspective;

O autorze

Kneese, Allen V. ; Brown, F. Lee