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RECORD NUMBER: 318 OF 434Main Title | Searching for paradise : economic development and environmental change in the mountain West / | |||||||||||
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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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Collation | xiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index. |
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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. |