Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

by William deBuys

Book Overview

With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe.
In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199778922
• ISBN13: 9780199778928
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"