Waving the Magic Wand
An Argument for Reorganizing the Aridlands around Watersheds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22354366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danika Cooper (0000-0002-3441-5875, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Plan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2531-7644 • E-ISSN: 2611-7487 |
| Publisher | MAGGIOLI S.p.A (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.7 |
| OpenAlex | W3217694579 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Irrigation remains the primary means of sustaining urbanization and stabilizing agricultural productivity in arid America. In the contest for the West, water is both wealth and power. Today's struggle to overturn water scarcity is traceable through a long history of legislation overseeing land regulation, property speculation, societal development, and cultural attitudes, real and perceived, inscribed within the America's aridlands. In reality, there is no magic wand -no miraculous technology -that alone will fulfill the needs of all who have been promised abundance in the aridlands. This paper proposes that revisiting John Wesley Powell's 1893 proposal for aridland development in the context of today's ecological conditions catalyzes an alternative response to today's predictions of changing climates, and can provide the basis of an approach to the aridlands which builds from the enmeshed relationship between social and environmental systems
CONTEST · Economics · Environmental ethics · Legislation · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Political science · Scarcity · Speculation · American Environmental and Regional History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |