The Southwest Under Stress: National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting

by Allen V. Kneese, F. Lee Brown, Horace Hayman Wilson

Southwest Under Stress examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. It emphasizes three issues with implications that extend far beyond the Southwest: water---its quantity, quality, and allocation; environment---how and to what extent it should be preserved; and the future of Native American and other poverty-stricken peoples. Energy comes in for special attention because the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801827078
• ISBN13: 9780801827075
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 1 Pages