Under Fire and Under Water: Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West Volume 16

by Bruce E. Cain

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation--a "Great American Desert," as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806193204
• ISBN13: 9780806193205
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"