On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio
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Book Description
These 11 essays trace the 300-year struggle that the peoples of San Antonio have waged with their environment. With the underlying question of whether people define San Antonio's environment or vice versa, experts examine the history and impact of issues that challenge San Antonio today - most notably urban sprawl, water rights, and unchecked economic development. Deeply entwined with these environmental issues are questions of the city's social ecology, which the essays also chronicle, ranging from the history of the city's parks to that of its sewer systems and everything in between.
About the Author
Char Miller is professor and chair of the History Department and director of Urban Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio. He is author of "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism," co-author of the award-winning The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America, editor of American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics, and co-editor of Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict.
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On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio,Char Miller,Trinity University Press,1595340149,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Science,Essays,History,History - U.S.,History: American,Human ecology,Human geography,Land Utilization,Natural Resources,Nature,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,San Antonio,Social ecology,Texas,United States - State & Local - Southwest,United States - State & Local - West,Water And Marine Resources Management
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