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Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development - How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop? (Hardcover)
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Paradoxes Of Western Energy Development - How Can We Maintain The Land And The People If We Develop? (Hardcover)
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Proposed energy resource development in the arid western United
States raises a number of potential problems for an environment
that does not have a great deal of resiliency. Projected population
increases associated with large-scale development activities may go
beyond the capacity of small, isolated rural communities to absorb
them; and constraints on western agricultural and industrial
development-for example, demands for water already exceeding the
supply available-also limit energy development. The authors of this
wide-ranging book first evaluate western energy resources, then
objectively discuss the consequences of development on the region's
physical and social environments. Among the questions they consider
are: Who will reap the economic benefits of development, and who
will bear the environmental costs? What will be the effects on the
environment? The social structure? The quality of life? Are open
spaces a national treasure in their present form, or should they be
regarded as space available for development? What are the unique
demands of reclamation in the arid west? And, given the recent
trend of western states-rights militancy and shifts of population
to the southwest, what impact will new federal and state policies
have on resource management?
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