Aridity and man; the challenge of the arid lands in the United States. Carle Hodge, editor; Peter C. Duisberg, associate editor.

Author
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on Desert and Arid Zones Research [Browse]
Format
Book
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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    Series
    • Publication (American Association for the Advancement of Science) ; no. 74. [More in this series]
    • [American Association for the Advancement of Science] Publication no. 74
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    LCCN
    63022003
    OCLC
    490237
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