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Titel: Vision and Place
Zustand: Neu
Subtitle: John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin
Autor: Jason Robison
Contributor: Jason Robison (Edited by), Daniel McCool (Edited by), Thomas Minckley (Edited by), Charles Wilkinson (Foreword by)
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN-10: 0520375785
EAN: 9780520375789
ISBN: 9780520375789
Verlag: University of California Press
Genre: History
Thematik: Science Nature & Math, Home Garden & Pets
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2020
Description: The Colorado River Basin’s importance cannot be overstated. Its living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people, contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American colonization of the “Arid Region” that has indelibly shaped the basin—a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but also in contemporary environmental and social policy.
 
One hundred and fifty years after Powell’s epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition, this volume revisits Powell’s vision, examining its historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado River Basin’s cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In three parts, the volume unpacks Powell’s ideas on water, public lands, and Native Americans—ideas at once innovative, complex, and contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the future, reflecting on how—if at all—Powell’s legacy might inform our collective vision as we navigate a new “Great Unknown.”
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 229mm
Länge: 152mm
Breite: 25mm
Gewicht: 590g
Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe

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