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Irrigated Eden

Autor Mark Fiege
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2000
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces--one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295980133
ISBN-10: 0295980133
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 29 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Washington Press

Recenzii

“Fiege suggests that, no matter how we try to alter the natural world, the unexpected consequences of our actions will always come back to haunt us.”--Choice

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Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems.