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Design with the Desert Conservation and Sustainable Development

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Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built envir...

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Other Authors: Malloy, Richard (Editor), Brock, John (Editor), Floyd, Anthony (Editor), Livingston, Margaret (Editor), Webb, Robert H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2013
Subjects:
Applied ecology
Conservation of the environment
Civil engineering, surveying & building
Environmental science, engineering & technology
Biodiversity
Planning
Ecology - Environment Studies
ENG
ENVIRO
CivilEngineering
SCI-TECH
ENVIRONMENTALSCIENCE
STM
area
basin
chihuahuan
colorado
great
metropolitan
mojave
phoenix
river
sonoran
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Summary:Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest-and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (620 p.)
ISBN:b14054
Access:Open Access

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