Under Fire and Under Water Volume 16 by Bruce E. Cain PAPERBACK 9780806196466

Under Fire and Under Water Volume 16Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West\nAuthor(s): Bruce E. Cain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806196466, 978-0806196466\nSynopsis\nEpic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation - a 'Great American Desert,' as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat. \n The challenges posed by increasingly extreme weather in the West are complicated by the region's history, the deliberate fractiousness of the American political system, and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior .