Climate and Man in the Southwest (Pamphlet)

Description

Editor: Smiley, Terah L. (Ted)  (1914-1996)

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1958

Binding: Paperback (Pamphlet)

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (LC):  Fair.   Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  One scratched area on upper front cover (Some previous owner trying to remove a sticker?)  Corner and edge wear, foxing to text blocks.  Scuffing to front spine edge.  Copy 2 (LC):  Fair.   Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears bends or folds.  Scuffing to front cover at spine edge.   Smudging to lower rear cover corner.  Some edge and corner wear.  Pamphlet. 84 pages, 60+ years old.

Notes: Contribution Number 6, Program in Geochronology, University of Arizona.  “It is widely felt that if mankind is to meet the increasing need of an expanding population and a rising standard of living, it will be necessary to turn to the arid regions of the world.  These areas constitute nearly thirty percent of the land surface of the earth.  At present they are generally characterized by sparse population or limited development or both….If man is given sufficient vision and will, the arid zones may progress to unique patterns of decisive importance to the world of the future.  The immediate problem, however, is not the conquest of the desert, but rather the deceleration of the extension of desertic conditions as a result of the influence of man.  Too often dust bowls, drought disaster, floods, ground water depletion, salt-ruined land, sediment-choked dams, and ghost towns are the result of a basic lack of understanding of or an unwillingness to respect the natural laws.  Nature and Man are in delicate balance in arid areas. ” (From the Prologue).  For a remembrance of Ted Smiley, see https://www.geosociety.org//documents/gsa/memorials/v28/smiley.pdf   Those who do not remember history….