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Aridity and man; the challenge of the arid lands in the United States. Carle Hodge, editor; Peter C. Duisberg, associate editor.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Desert and Arid Zones Research
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Language
English
Published/Created
Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1963.
Description
xx, 584 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm.
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GB614 .A5 1963
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Subject(s)
Arid regions
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United States
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Arid regions
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Arid regions climate
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Ecology
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Water-supply
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Editor
Hodge, Carle
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Conference papers and proceedings
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proceedings (reports)
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Series
Publication (American Association for the Advancement of Science) ; no. 74.
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[American Association for the Advancement of Science] Publication no. 74
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Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Aridity and man : an interpretive survey / Carle Hodge
Regional setting / Donald D. MacPhail
Indian adaptations to arid environments / Richard B. Woodbury
Historical framework / Ira G. Clark
Weather : complex causes of aridity / Ralph M. McGehee
Water and its uses / Herbert E. Skibitske, Russell H. Brown, and John W. Harshbarger
Mineral and energy sources in the arid West / Joseph A. Schufle
Soils of the arid West / Harold E. Dregne
Aridity and agriculture / J.L. Gardner
Role of watersheds and forests in the arid West / William G. McGinnies, Andrew L. McComb, and Joel E. Fletcher
Native animals and plants as resources / Gordon L. Bender
Human factors in desert development / Douglas H.K. Lee
Economic development of arid regions / Morris E. Garnsey and Nathaniel Wollman
Political and social institutions in arid regions / Dean E. Mann
Critical review of man's history in arid regions / Marrion Clawson
Challenge of the future / Peter C. Duisberg
Tucson : a problem in uses of water / Andrew W. Wilson
Upper Rio Grande : embattled river / John Hay
Embudo : rise and decline of a program / Edgar A. Imhoff
Rio Puerco : abused basin / Edward J. Dortignac
Los Angeles : growing pains of a metropolis / Warren A. Hall
Central Valley : water use at its maximum / Harold E. Thomas
Great Plains : a region basically vulnerable / Carl F. Kraenzel
Sandstone Creek : how a watershed was saved / Harold M. Kautz.
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490237
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