The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable PlanetRoutledge, 2018 M02 19 - 480 pages Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. Have we reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If so, what can we do about it?These vital questions are addressed in The Earth Around Us, a unique collection of thirty-one essays by a diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion, the contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in relation to today's environmental issues--and show how we, as members of a global community, can help maintain a livable planet. The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth Resources for the twenty-first century, such as public lands, healthy forests and soils, clean ground and surface waters, and fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the interactions between living things and the Earth's air, water, and soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the belief that earth science is, and should be, an integral part of everyday life, The Earth Around Us empowers all of us to play a more educated and active part in the search for a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. |
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... effects of our actions. I hope this book will help anyone concerned about our planet's ability to support us to understand Earth's history and processes that ground our environmental problems. In the search for a life-sustaining future ...
... effects of our actions. I hope this book will help anyone concerned about our planet's ability to support us to understand Earth's history and processes that ground our environmental problems. In the search for a life-sustaining future ...
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... effect of humans on this process. While pursuing a bachelor's degree in geology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in ... effects of floods on land shape, and the forces that have sculpted the surfaces of Mars and Venus. He also pursues ...
... effect of humans on this process. While pursuing a bachelor's degree in geology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in ... effects of floods on land shape, and the forces that have sculpted the surfaces of Mars and Venus. He also pursues ...
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... effects of urbanization on aquifers particularly concern him. He is presently a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Director of the Environmental Science Institute at the University' of Texas at Austin. Paul Bierman ...
... effects of urbanization on aquifers particularly concern him. He is presently a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Director of the Environmental Science Institute at the University' of Texas at Austin. Paul Bierman ...
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... effects of ultraviolet radiation in relation to global ozone depletion. A geologist turned administrator, Gordon P. Eaton lives on Whidbey Island in northern Puget Sound, Washington. Gordie has steered at least two of the major ...
... effects of ultraviolet radiation in relation to global ozone depletion. A geologist turned administrator, Gordon P. Eaton lives on Whidbey Island in northern Puget Sound, Washington. Gordie has steered at least two of the major ...
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... the Earth as a habitat against the effects of human fouling. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a former President of the Geological Society of America Part I Records of Time and History Life must be.
... the Earth as a habitat against the effects of human fouling. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a former President of the Geological Society of America Part I Records of Time and History Life must be.
Contents
Part I | |
Set Piece on Geologic Time from Annals of the Former | |
WorldLauret E Savoy | |
Henrys LandPaul R Bierman | |
Part II | |
Why Believe a Computer? Models Measures and Meaning | |
Part IV | |
The Follies of Lotus BayJill Κ Singer | |
Geology and Community | |
PlanningPaul Κ Doss | |
Maintaining a Clean Water Supply | |
HighLevel Nuclear Waste | |
Rosa E Gwinn | |
Part VI | |
A Historical Look at GovernmentSponsored | |
Common Ground for Geology | |
A Proper Scale for Our Environmental | |
Managing the Publics ResourcesDavid | |
The View from an Experimental | |
Are Soils Endangered?Ronald Amundson | |
Water for Thirsty TexansJohn M | |
New York Citys Water | |
Sustaining Healthy CoastsJeffrey L Payne | |
A Record of Climate Change from Owens Lake Sediment | |
Lessons from the Past for Future ClimateRobin L Hornung | |
Hornung and Thomas E Downham II | |
An Example from | |
Stakes Options and Some Natural Limits to a Sustainable | |
What Else Should My Neighbor Know?Caryl Edward | |
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