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Main Title Searching for paradise : economic development and environmental change in the mountain West /
Author Booth, Douglas E.
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Year Published 2002
OCLC Number 49261331
ISBN 0742518752 (alk. paper) 9780742518759 (alk. paper) 0742518760 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742518766 (pbk
Subjects Economic development--Environmental aspects--West (US) ; Urban-rural migration--Environmental aspects--West (US) ; Landscape protection--West (US) ; Biodiversity conservation--West (US) ; West (US)--Population--Environmental aspects
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ERAM  TD195.E25 B66 2002 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 09/28/2007
Collation xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.
Contents Notes
The "Suburbanization" of the Mountain West -- Economic Trends in the Mountain Counties: Rural-Urban Convergence -- Population Spreading in the Mountain West: Mobility and Footloose Income -- The Cumulative Ecological Consequences of Mountain West Economic Development -- Rural Sprawl and Rare and Threatened Species in the Mountain West -- Local Growth and Support for Preserving the Natural Landscape in the Sierra Nevada Mountains -- Saving the Landscape: Environmental Change and the Land Trust Movement in the Mountain West -- The Environmental Ethics of Rural Sprawl: Ecological Cities and Biodiversity -- Strategies for Limiting Rural Sprawl.