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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... Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, Oregon, he examines especially the interactions of geomorphlc [surface-shaping) processes, landforms, and biotic properties of ecosystems. For many years as a geologist at the U.S. ...
... Pacific Northwest to the potential for much more violent emptions. But how deep is that awareness? Twenty-three thousand people—three-quarters of the people in the single village of Armero— were killed in one horrific night on November ...
... Pacific and North American plates, I woke up, not because my alarm went off, but because it slid off the table onto the floor. However, I was quite astonished to be rocked in my office chair—near Toronto, Canada—in 1998 by an earthquake ...
... Pacific Coast. mountain-building activity in the tlordiliera is geologically recent and still ongoing. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions still occur here from time to time, and the steep. rugged landscapes can at once appear new and ...
... Pacific Coast increased, beginning in the 1830s. Overland routes such as the Oregon and California, Santa Fe, and Southern trails gave midcentury Euro-American explorers and emigrants a direct experience with arid lands farther west ...
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 |