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  title info:
    title: Design with the desert
    sub title: conservation and sustainable development
  name:
    name part: Malloy, Richard (Richard A.)
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    place:
      place term: Boca Raton
    publisher: CRC Press
    date issued: ©2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 586 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities often resulted in scraping these desert lands of an ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development explores the natural and built environment of the American Southwest and introduces development tools for shaping the future of the region in a more sustainable way. Exp.
  table of contents: Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1 -- Deserts of the World; Chapter 2 -- Geology and Soils in Deserts of the Southwestern United States; Chapter 3 -- Scales of Climate in Designing with the Desert; Chapter 4 -- Water Resources in the Desert Southwest; Chapter 5 -- Geologic, Hydrologic, and Urban Hazards for Design in Desert Environments; Chapter 6 -- Deep History and Biogeography of La Frontera; Chapter 7 -- Vegetation Zones of the Southwest; Chapter 8 -- Plant Ecology of the Sonoran Desert Region.
  table of contents: Chapter 9 -- Wildlife and Anthropogenic Changes in the Arid SouthwestChapter 10 -- Healing the Wounds: An Example from the Sky Islands; Chapter 11 -- Built to Burn; Chapter 12 -- Restoring Ecosystem Health in Frequent-Fire Forests of the American West; Chapter 13 -- Ecological Planning Method; Chapter 14 -- Phoenix as Everycity: A Closer Look at Sprawl in the Desert; Chapter 15 -- Water Planning for Growing Southwestern Communities; Chapter 16 -- Removable and Place-Based Economies: Alternative Futures for America's Deserts.
  table of contents: Chapter 17 -- Environmental Injustice in the Urban Southwest: A Case Study of Phoenix, ArizonaChapter 18 -- Dwelling in Expanded Biotic Communities: Steps Toward Reconstructive Postmodern Communities; Chapter 19 -- Dialogue on Development; Chapter 20 -- Ecological Design; Chapter 21 -- Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Reuse for Arid Environments; Chapter 22 -- Designing Habitats in Urban Environments; Chapter 23 -- Native Plant Salvaging and Reuse in Southwestern Deserts; Chapter 24 -- Sustainable Urban Living: Green Solar Energy for Food and Biofuels Production; Chapter 25 -- Desert Urbanism.
  table of contents: Chapter 26 -- Settlement, Growth, and Water Security for Southwest CitiesChapter 27 -- Creating Tomorrow; Chapter 28 -- Desert Vernacular: Green Building and Ecological Design in Scottsdale, Arizona; Chapter 29 -- Sustainable Energy Alternatives for the Southwest; Chapter 30 -- Search for a Lean Alternative; Chapter 31 -- Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCityTM Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex; Back Cover.
  note: edited by Richard Malloy [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-ust--
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    topic: Desert ecology
  subject:
    topic: Desert ecology
    geographic: Southwestern States
  subject:
    topic: Desert ecology
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
    geographic: Southwestern States
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des déserts
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des déserts
    geographic: États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
  subject:
    topic: Développement durable
  subject:
    topic: Développement durable
    geographic: États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
  subject:
    topic: sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Green Business
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Natural Resources
  subject:
    topic: Desert ecology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    geographic: Southwestern States
  subject:
    geographic: West United States
  classification: QH541.5.D4
  classification: 333.736150973
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    title info:
      title: Design with the desert
    origin info:
      publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2013
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    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130323
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng