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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... Forest -Frederick J. Swanson 136 12 Are Soils Endangered ? —Ronald Amundson 144 13 The Edwards Aquifer : Water for Thirsty Texans -John M. Sharp , Jr. and Jay L. Banner 154 14 15 From the Catskills to Canal Street : New York City's ...
... Forest -Frederick J. Swanson 136 12 Are Soils Endangered ? —Ronald Amundson 144 13 The Edwards Aquifer : Water for Thirsty Texans -John M. Sharp , Jr. and Jay L. Banner 154 14 15 From the Catskills to Canal Street : New York City's ...
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... forests , soils , ground and surface waters , and coasts . In the fourth portion , essayists tell true stories about construction projects that defy geological sense . As a hopeful counterpoint to them , the essays in Part V detail geo ...
... forests , soils , ground and surface waters , and coasts . In the fourth portion , essayists tell true stories about construction projects that defy geological sense . As a hopeful counterpoint to them , the essays in Part V detail geo ...
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... forest in Evansville , Indiana . He has also worked as a hydrogeologist with the U.S. Geolog- ical Survey and the National Park Service . Thomas F. Downham II is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at Wayne State University ...
... forest in Evansville , Indiana . He has also worked as a hydrogeologist with the U.S. Geolog- ical Survey and the National Park Service . Thomas F. Downham II is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at Wayne State University ...
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... forests . As head of the Long - Term Ecological Research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in western Oregon , Fred has worked closely with forest and stream ecologists to study ...
... forests . As head of the Long - Term Ecological Research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in western Oregon , Fred has worked closely with forest and stream ecologists to study ...
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... forests , wetlands , or coastal estuaries seemed rare . A world traveler will have a perspective on the rareness of various spatial features on the Earth different from that of a local dweller . The traveler will be inclined to say ...
... forests , wetlands , or coastal estuaries seemed rare . A world traveler will have a perspective on the rareness of various spatial features on the Earth different from that of a local dweller . The traveler will be inclined to say ...
Contents
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Part II SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 57 |
Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED | 121 |
Part IV LOCAL MANIPULATIONS | 197 |
Part V INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS | 255 |
Part VI WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS | 307 |
Part VII GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES | 357 |
Source Notes | 410 |
Index | 443 |
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