Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration, Lower Colorado River Basin
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2005
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Fort Worth District
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Fort Worth District
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico)
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Author : Robert W. Adler
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1597267783
Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lost resources in portions of the river and its surrounding lands. Environmental restoration on the scale of the Colorado River basin is immensely challenging; in addition to an almost overwhelming array of technical difficulties, it is fraught with perplexing questions about the appropriate goals of restoration and the extent to which environmental restoration must be balanced against environmental changes designed to promote and sustain human economic development. Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems explores the many questions and challenges surrounding the issue of large-scale restoration of the Colorado River basin, and of large-scale restoration in general. Robert W. Adler evaluates the relationships among the laws, policies, and institutions governing use and management of the Colorado River for human benefit and those designed to protect and restore the river and its environment. He examines and critiques the often challenging interactions among law, science, economics, and politics within which restoration efforts must operate. Ultimately, he suggests that a broad concept of “restoration” is needed to navigate those uncertain waters, and to strike an appropriate balance between human and environmental needs. While the book is primarily about restoration of Colorado River ecosystems, it is also about uncertainty, conflict, competing values, and the nature, pace, and implications of environmental change. It is about our place in the natural environment, and whether there are limits to that presence we ought to respect. And it is about our responsibility to the ecosystems we live in and use.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 1916 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : CD-ROMs
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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House".
Author : United States
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Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
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Author : United States
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 2926 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
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