Description:
As a detailed look at the rising stakes and urgency of the various interconnected issues, this book is an important first step toward that understanding--and consequently toward the rethinking and reengineering that will allow people to live sustainably in the American West under the conditions of future global warming.
Brief description:
Bruce E. Cain is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He is the author of Democracy More or Less: America's Political Reform Quandary and coauthor of Ethnic Context, Race Relations, and California Politics.
Review Quotes: "Bruce Cain, one of the nation's foremost political scientists, has produced a brilliant and indispensable analysis of the environmental crisis in the western United States, including sea level rise, climate change, and drought, in a book that tackles the consequences of zero sum thinking and bureaucratic inertia."--Thomas B. Edsall, author of The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics