| Description |
1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Urban nature : an introduction / Char Miller -- San Antonio : an environmental crossroads on the Texas spring line / James F. Petersen -- "A fine country with broad plains--the most beautiful in New Spain" : colonial views of land and nature / Jésus F. de la Teja -- Where the buffalo roamed : ranching, agriculture, and the urban marketplace / Char Miller -- Parks, politics, and patronage / Char Miller and Heywood Sanders -- The landscape of death : homicide as a health problem / David R. Johnson, Derral Cheatwood, and Benjamin Bradshaw -- Battlefields : the military and the environment / Stephanie J. Shaw and Craig E. Colten -- Empty taps, missing pipes : water policy and politics / Heywood Sanders -- Establishing "sole source" protection : the Edwards aquifer and the Safe Drinking Water Act / Laura A. Wimberley -- Sitting down at the table : mediation and resolution of water conflicts / John M. Donahue and Jon Q. Sanders -- The preservation of San Antonio's built environment / Lewis F. Fisher -- Elusive balance : landscape, architecture, and the social matrix / John Hutton -- City limits : an afterword / Char Miller |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-281) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Land use -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
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Water-supply -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Management -- History
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Environmental policy -- Texas -- San Antonio
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SCIENCE -- General.
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Economic history
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Environmental policy
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Land use
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Water-supply -- Management
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| SUBJECT |
San Antonio (Tex.) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Texas -- San Antonio
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Char, 1951-
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| ISBN |
9780822970606 |
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0822970600 |
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