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The 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 Southwest is a principal repository of fossil and nuclear fuels.

This book serves as a guide for public policy in the region, and many of the policy alternatives set out are aimed at state and local governments. Alleviating poverty, improving the lot of Native Americans, and formulating workable water, environmental, and natural resources development policies are all of special concern to the region, but the federal government has asserted a dominant role in may of these areas. The book discusses ways in which the federal role may change to improve both federal policy itself and cooperation with other levels of government. ... Read more

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There is a complex relationship between the environment and thedevelopment of tourism, which this book discusses in a thorough andinformative manner. Specialists from several disciplines pay attentionto the challenges of sustainable tourism, devoting their fullattention to cultural, regional and policy issues. This is a revisededition that has been expanded to 22 contributions, with inclusion ofthe cultural element. All chapters have been updated to include newdata and information added to the existing body of literature in thelast 7 years. It includes new developments and new insights into therelationship between tourism and the environment. An invaluable sequelto the first edition. ... Read more

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The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship betweentourism and the environment has received considerable attention sincethe 1970s. However, only in the 1980s and 1990s did it become a topicof systematic academic inquiry and research, distinguished from thebroader area of the environmental impacts of recreation and leisureactivities.
This volume dwells on the environmental and economic impacts oftourism and is divided as follows:
Part 1: Introduction and Overview
Part 2: Tourism and the Environment: General Considerations
Part 3: Regional Issues
Part 4: Economic Issues
Part 5: Policy Issues
The work is complemented by a subject index.
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Summarizes the impact that specific environmental problems have on the health of Europe's population. Addressed to the general public, the report aims to enhance awareness of the magnitude of ill health linked to the environment, establish priorities, and map out lines for immediate action. Assessments and recommendations draw on the vast body of data collected by the European Environment Agency and the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health.

The report has two parts. The first discusses ten major health problems and explains how these are linked to the environment. Problems identified range from cancer, through respiratory and communicable diseases, to injury, poisoning, birth defects, and impaired mental development in children. Against this background, the second part identifies three priority areas where coordinated action can have a major impact on both the environment and human health: pollution of air with suspended particulate matter, microbiological contamination of drinking water, and road traffic accidents. These were selected because of their relatively well-established cause-effect relationship and their susceptibility to known remedial actions. Each is discussed in detail, covering the nature of the problem, its causes, the consequences for health, precise goals for action, and strategies for reaching these goals. Supporting data cited include the link between specific air concentrations of suspended particulate matter and effects on health, the magnitude of illness caused by water-borne transmission of cholera, typhoid, and hepatitis A, and the estimates that road traffic accidents result each day in the injury of over 6000 Europeans and the deaths of close to 350. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 4988 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Most soil erosion studies are confined to short time frames and small plot scales. However, expanded soil erosion studies need to be conducted to increase the understanding of the relationship between global climatic change and soil erosion. Some scientists have already started to develop dynamic systems strategies that integrate the spatial variations between small and large scale erosion studies into a new soil erosion monitoring and experimentation model.

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Title: Scaling up processes and models from the field plot to the watershed and regional areas.(Special Issue: Global Change & Terrestrial Ecosystems)
Author: M.J. Kirkby
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v51Issue: n5Page: p391(6)

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Subjects: Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)Democratic Party (Calif.). State Central CommitteeConservation of natural resources -- CaliforniaEnvironmental policy -- CaliforniaNuclear energy -- Government policyCalifornia -- Politics and government 1951-Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nephrology Nursing Journal, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 679 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Key to planning for regional disasters: collaboration. (Professional Issues).(Brief Article)
Author: Paula Dutka
Publication: Nephrology Nursing Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: 28Issue: 5Page: 584(1)

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Examining both the rich biological heritage of the world's second largest continent and the very serious human threats to it, Africa and the Middle East explores the impact global pollution and a burgeoning population are having on landscape and wildlife alike. How is global warming responsible for the rapidly expanding Sahara Desert? Can local populations be recruited to preserve threatened species?

Over 80 percent of Madagascar's species are endemic, the highest percentage of any major ecological region in the world, such as the highly endangered aye-aye which resembles a cross between a monkey, a bat, and a woodpecker, and the giraffe-necked weevil, a red rainforest insect with a neck like a fire truck rescue ladder. Readers will learn all about these fascinating species and much more.