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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... County, Minnesota—Carhry::A. Manda-ca 263 Standoff at Yucca Mountain: High-Level Nuclear Waste in the United States—Al.'lison Macfarlane 283 Appetite for Toxins: Biorernediation of Contaminated Soil —Rosa E. Gwinn 300 Part V] WHOLE ...
... County environmental commission (she was chair of the commission in 1998] and as coordinator of the Keck geology consortium—a group of undergraduate liberal arts geology departments that offers geologic research opportunities for ...
... County's environmental management council and currently is an active member of the Friends of the Buffalo River, an organization concerned with issues surrounding the restoration of a local river. In both the classroom and the community ...
... county had unwisely placed the junior high school on the floodplain. Even with a good collective conscience about the seasonal and annual behavior of this small river system, city zoning laws did not, and typically do not, prevent ...
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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 |