The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.

The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery

Business & Money

Hazlett, Richard W.

Wilshire, Howard G.

Nielson, Jane E.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Roadside Geology of Hawai`i details the evolution of this volcanic island chain, from the origin of a hot spot and the tumultuous creation of each island to ongoing eruptions and the gradual death and erosion of old volcanoes. Residents and tourists alike will soon become experts on lava tubes and lava flows, ancient beaches and coral reefs, ephemeral black sand beaches and the occasional tsunami. Includes a chapter each on six easily accessible and populated islands: Hawai`i , Maui, Lana`i, Moloka`i, O`ahu, and Kaua`i. Each chapter begins with a general discussion of the rocks of that island, then proceeds with a seres of road guides that provide the local details.

Roadside Geology of Hawaii (Roadside Geology Series)

Science & Math

Hyndman, Donald W.

Earth Sciences

Mountain Press

Geological field guide, Kilauea Volcano [Jan 01, 1993] Hazlett, Richard W ... 0940295121

Geological field guide, Kilauea Volcano

Hawaii Natural History Association

Since&#8239;the publication of the first edition&#8239;of&nbsp;Volcanoes&nbsp;in 2010, our world of volcanology has changed&#8239;in exciting ways.&#8239;Volcanoes have continued to erupt&#8239;(some&#8239;61&#8239;eruptions with VEI magnitudes greater than&#8239;3 have&#8239;taken place since 2010), and in this revised and updated edition, the authors describe the largest of these, and the ones that have had the most impact on&#8239;society.&#8239;Volcanoes, Second Edition, contains&#8239;more than 80&#8239;new photographs and figures to&#8239;better&#8239;illustrate&#8239;volcanic features and processes, with an updated Bibliography that includes important papers describing&#8239;recent eruptions and new findings.&#8239;&nbsp;&nbsp; Volcanologic&nbsp;research is&#8239;improving the&#8239;foundations&#8239;of knowledge upon which all&#8239;our science rests, and&#8239;we briefly&#8239;summarize&#8239;the&#8239;most important of these advances&#8239;and new research tools&#8239;developed over the past eleven years.&#8239;&#8239;The&#8239;most&#8239;productive&#8239;of these&#8239;new tools are remotely operated,&#8239;constantly&#8239;monitoring&#8239;volcanoes and their&#8239;impacts on&#8239;the&#8239;Earth's atmosphere from space&#8239;and exploring new&#8239;volcanic worlds beyond the bounds of Earth.&#8239;Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)&#8239;are now widely&nbsp;available to understand better the most active volcanoes on Earth&nbsp;-&nbsp;those beneath the sea.&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&nbsp;&nbsp; This&nbsp;superlative textbook&nbsp;will enable students who may never see an erupting volcano to&#8239;evaluate news stories about&#8239;far-away&#8239;eruptions,&#8239;and&#8239;to distinguish between overly sensational stories and factual reporting that puts facts in context.&#8239;Emergency managers, land use planners, and&#8239;civic officials&#8239;also need to understand volcanic processes&#8239;when their communities are threatened&nbsp;- this book will inform and guide them in their decision-making.&nbsp; Avoiding overly technical discussions&#8239;and unnecessary use of jargon, with the&#8239;important&#8239;needs of&#8239;civil&#8239;authorities,&#8239;teachers&#8239;and students particularly in mind, this Second Edition of&nbsp;Volcanoes&#8239;will also be of interest to general readers who are interested in these&nbsp;fascinating and ever-changing features of our dynamic&nbsp;planet.&nbsp;

Volcanoes: Global Perspectives

Lockwood, John P.

De La Cruz-reyna, Servando

Wiley/Blackwell

Volcanoes are essential elements in the delicate global balance of elemental forces that govern both the dynamic evolution of the Earth and the nature of Life itself. Without volcanic activity, life as we know it would not exist on our planet. Although beautiful to behold, volcanoes are also potentially destructive, and understanding their nature is critical to prevent major loss of life in the future. 
Richly illustrated with over 300 original color photographs and diagrams the book is written in an informal manner, with minimum use of jargon, and relies heavily on first-person, eye-witness accounts of eruptive activity at both "red" (effusive) and "grey" (explosive) volcanoes to illustrate the full spectrum of volcanic processes and their products. Decades of teaching in university classrooms and fieldwork on active volcanoes throughout the world have provided the authors with unique experiences that they have distilled into a highly readable textbook of lasting value. Questions for Thought, Study, and Discussion, Suggestions for Further Reading, and a comprehensive list of source references make this work a major resource for further study of volcanology. Volcanoes maintains three core foci: <ul>
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Global perspectives explain volcanoes in terms of their tectonic positions on Earth and their roles in earth history</li> <li>
Environmental perspectives describe the essential role of volcanism in the moderation of terrestrial climate and atmosphere</li> <li>
Humanitarian perspectives discuss the major influences of volcanoes on human societies. This latter is especially important as resource scarcities and environmental issues loom over our world, and as increasing numbers of people are threatened by volcanic hazards</li> </ul>
Readership Volcanologists, advanced undergraduate, and graduate students in earth science and related degree courses, and volcano enthusiasts worldwide. A companion website is also available for this title at www.wiley.com/go/lockwood/volcanoes

Blackwell Pub.

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