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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... region he came first to love at the ripe old age of nine . James E. Evans teaches sedimentology , hydrogeology , and mechanics of fluid motion as a professor in the geology department at Bowling Green State University . His coauthored ...
... region he came first to love at the ripe old age of nine . James E. Evans teaches sedimentology , hydrogeology , and mechanics of fluid motion as a professor in the geology department at Bowling Green State University . His coauthored ...
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... region . Seepage and evaporation cause a loss of about 15 percent of the water in the Nile system . And sediments have been filling the reservoir and decreasing its storage capacity , although the High Dam is still expected to have a ...
... region . Seepage and evaporation cause a loss of about 15 percent of the water in the Nile system . And sediments have been filling the reservoir and decreasing its storage capacity , although the High Dam is still expected to have a ...
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... regions with their waves were the rapids . These waves were the major challenges , as well as part of the fun , of rafting navigation . River guides , who accumulated the most experience and knowledge of the river , observed that the ...
... regions with their waves were the rapids . These waves were the major challenges , as well as part of the fun , of rafting navigation . River guides , who accumulated the most experience and knowledge of the river , observed that the ...
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... region with their families and cattle were suffocated and burned , and Keoua capitulated to King Kamehameha . Footprints of these doomed people can still be seen in the deposits from this eruption . A smaller , but similar eruption in ...
... region with their families and cattle were suffocated and burned , and Keoua capitulated to King Kamehameha . Footprints of these doomed people can still be seen in the deposits from this eruption . A smaller , but similar eruption in ...
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... region - major fault lines have created the topography that has governed the evolution of civilizations through trade routes and earthquakes on those faults have destroyed those very same civilizations . Some earthquake sequences have ...
... region - major fault lines have created the topography that has governed the evolution of civilizations through trade routes and earthquakes on those faults have destroyed those very same civilizations . Some earthquake sequences have ...
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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