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Edgar W. Butler
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University of California, Riverside, USA
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James B. Pick
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University of California, Riverside, USA
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 1-34
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 35-75
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 77-137
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 139-164
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 165-197
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 199-234
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 235-248
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 249-304
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- Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick
Pages 305-331
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Back Matter
Pages 333-361
About this book
What are the effects on an isolated region when an entirely new and major energy resource is developed to commercial proportions? What happens to the population, the economy, the environment, the community, and societal relations? How does the government frame work respond, the family structure adapt, the economy expand, and life styles change under the impact of new forces which hold a prom ise of much benefit and a risk of adverse consequences? Imperial County, California, has a population of less than 90,000 people. This population has been exceptionally stable for years, cen tered as it is in an agricultural and recreational framework. The county is somewhat cut off from other areas by geographic barriers of moun'" tains and desert, by state and natural boundaries, and is the most remote of all 58 counties of California from the state capitol, Sacra mento. In the decade of the 1950s, geographical explorations for oil re vealed some anomalous structures underlying the desert and agricul tural areas in Imperial County. These, when drilled, seemed to be oil less and hot, and so lacked attractiveness to petroleum wildcatters. In the decade of the 1960s, Dr.
