Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The West in profile
- 2 The Great American Desert transformed: aridity, exploitation, and imperialism in the making of the modern American West
- 3 The Central Valley of California
- 4 Land and water management issues: Texas High Plains
- 5 Water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin: problems and policy alternatives
- 6 Growth and water in the South Coast Basin of California
- 7 Toward sustaining a desert metropolis: water and land use in Tucson, Arizona
- 8 Water management issues in the Denver, Colorado, urban area
- 9 New water policies for the West
- Appendix: Advisory Panel, Arid Lands Project
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The West in profile
- 2 The Great American Desert transformed: aridity, exploitation, and imperialism in the making of the modern American West
- 3 The Central Valley of California
- 4 Land and water management issues: Texas High Plains
- 5 Water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin: problems and policy alternatives
- 6 Growth and water in the South Coast Basin of California
- 7 Toward sustaining a desert metropolis: water and land use in Tucson, Arizona
- 8 Water management issues in the Denver, Colorado, urban area
- 9 New water policies for the West
- Appendix: Advisory Panel, Arid Lands Project
- Index
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- Water and Arid Lands of the Western United StatesA World Resources Institute Book, pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988