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- W2105880744 abstract "Reisner (1986) coined the tenn Desert to describe the high costs associated with irrigated agriculture in the American west. This concept can logically be extended to the northern-most reaches ofthe Great Plains in Canada to perform a critical analysis of irrigated agriculture in southernAlberta. Today irrigation technology, which arrivedwith the Mormon immigration of the 1880s, keeps over a million acres offonner shortgrass prairie green. Costs ofone ofthe world's largest snow melt irrigation systems are examined on several dimensions: the massive infusion of state funds necessary to build and maintain the system, environmentaldegradation in the form ofsalinization, expansion oflow or no food value crops, and intensifica tion of the domination of the farmer-to-consumer chain by transnational corporations. Possible water regimes under global wanning conditions are discussed, along with the implications ofFree Trade. In his critical analysis ofirrigated agriculture and urban water use in the American West, Reisner (1986: 14) proposed that where water is concerned in this dry region, logic and reason have not figured prominently in the scheme ofthings. The result ofthis attitude has enabled large tracts ofthe vast semi arid interior to bloom agriculturally and cities within the region to prosper, but only by developing regional land and water use regimes based on the expen sive pretension that the natural obstacles of climate and landforms do not exist. In Reisner's view, water applications made under such an assumption are luxury uses by virtue of their expense to the public purse, support by public policies ofquestionable rationality, and destruction ofthe environment; hence the imagery of an expensive luxury automobile. From the perspective of critical sociology, this paper explores the propo sition that a Cadillac condition also exists in the western-most part of southern Alberta, Canada. Palliser's Triangle includes over a million acres of semi-arid prairie in southern portions of the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta developed by irrigation (Fig. 1). The study region is considerably less dramatic in terms of geographical size and population of urban centers, but Reisner's concept of luxuryis nonetheless useful to provide" @default.
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- W2105880744 title "Southern Alberta’s Cadillac Desert" @default.
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