The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable PlanetHenry Holt and Company, 2000 M03 27 - 250 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? |
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... floods on land shape, and the forces that have sculpted the surfaces of Mars and Venus. He also pursues work on the history and philosophy of the earth sciences. Vic's written work includes examinations of the significance of earth and ...
... floods, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes——that affect individuals and civilizations. Then. John McPhee unearths the “abyss of time" in the intellectual rovings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists. Lauret Savoy explores ...
... may be common, but floods that drain an entire watershed during an exceptionally strong El Nifio or La Nina event may be rare. Clearly, conclusions like these depend on our state of knowledge. 4 PARTI Records ofTime and History.
... flood" may be small for a few years, or big for a few years, but it will occur in the spring. The more serious problem is that there will be larger spring floods over time scales of centuries or millennia, and these rare events are ...
... floods, gully washes, flash floods, winter freezes, and ice jams were part of community knowledge. Even if you lived near a very small creek, as I did when I was a child, you saw the variations seasonally and annually. Much to my ...
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 PERSPECTlVES | 357 |
Source Notes | 410 |
Index | 443 |