On the border : an environmental history of San Antonio / Char Miller, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Char, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Texas--San Antonio--History.

Land use.

Water resources development--Texas--San Antonio--History.

Water resources development.

Environmental policy.

History.

Texas--San Antonio.

Environmental policy--Texas--San Antonio.

San Antonio (Tex.)--Economic conditions.

San Antonio (Tex.).

Physical Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]

Contents:

Urban Nature: An Introduction / Char Miller 1

Part 1 Climate Controls

1. San Antonio: An Environmental Crossroads on the Texas Spring Line / James F. Petersen 17

Part 2 Ground Movement

2. "A Fine Country with Broad Plains

the Most Beautiful in New Spain": Colonial Views of Land and Nature / Jesus F. de la Teja 41

3. Where the Buffalo Roamed: Ranching, Agriculture, and the Urban Marketplace / Char Miller 56

Part 3 Social Ecology

4. Parks, Politics, and Patronage / Char Miller, Heywood Sanders 83

5. The Landscape of Death: Homicide as a Health Problem / David R. Johnson, Derral Cheatwood, Benjamin Bradshaw 99

6. Battlefields: The Military and the Environment / Stephanie J. Shaw, Craig E. Colten 121

Part 4 Water Fights

7. Empty Taps, Missing Pipes: Water Policy and Politics / Heywood Sanders 141

8. Establishing "Sole Source" Protection: The Edwards Aquifer and the Safe Drinking Water Act / Laura A. Wimberley 169

9. Sitting Down at the Table: Mediation and Resolution of Water Conflicts / John M. Donahue, Jon Q. Sanders 182

Part 5 Land Marks

10. The Preservation of San Antonio's Built Environment / Lewis F. Fisher 199

11. Elusive Balance: Landscape, Architecture, and the Social Matrix / John Hutton 222

City Limits: An Afterword / Char Miller 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-281) and index.

ISBN:

0822941635

OCLC:

47092399