A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest [Audiobook] download free by William Debuys
- Listen audiobook: A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
- Author: William Debuys
- Release date: 2011/12/2
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, USA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780199778928
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 187
- Review by: Luciana Kellogg
- Review rating: 8.84 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/29
- Duration: 4H36M1S in 256 kbps (73.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC, WMA, WAV (compression TAR.LZO, RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARC, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 369
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M18S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River-upon which nearly 30 million people depend-the author narrates the landscape's history-and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide-the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East-will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Global Warming, Natural History Books, Applied Ecology
- Download servers: Nubo, Dropbox, MEGA, BitShare, Uploaded. Compressed in TAR.LZO, RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARC, TAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 51.10 USD
- Dimensions: 155x236x33mm
- Weight: 590g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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