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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... Island}, where Earth's simultaneous iierceness and fragility are in evidence everywhere. She is associate professor of geology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Caryl Edward Buchwald, Lloyd McBride professor of ...
... Island, in San Francisco Bay, is in sandstones and shales of the Mesozoic. And in Carlin Canyon, in Nevada, the road makes a neat pair of holes in Paleozoic rock. This all but leaves the false impression that an academic geologist chose ...
... Island in the Firth of Forth. His friend John Clerk sometimes went with him and made line drawings and watercolors of scenes that arrested Hutton's attention. In 1968, a John Clerk with a name too old for Roman numerals found a leather ...
... islands of moisture. I~'.rn.sinml mnlullils, lllv lvlmmlain. sotllhvrn ('Iolorado. -[l'holog:*rq_il: by In-.'uw E. Semiarid southwestern plains and breaks. New Mexico. (Pirotogmph by Lmtret Savoy]. 3 Stories of Land. Stories from Land 3]
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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 |