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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... annually, with century-scale floods known to have reached about 400,000 cfs. After the dam was completed in 1966, the discharge was controlled by the engineers and varied between about 4,000 cfs and 10 PART I Records of Time and History.
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. by the engineers and varied between about 4,000 cfs and about 30,000 cfs. Hence, the peak discharges were only about one-third the volume of typical annual floods and were much smaller than ...
... engineers who managed the dam, administrators of the Grand Canyon National Park, and scientists had a collective view of the river that was based on a few decades of observation—extended to a century for those who studied the journals ...
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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 |