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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... University Press, has been an energetic and engaged editor. Her ability to share my vision and pace have sustained me in many ways. Erika Goldman, Georgia Lee Hadler, and Melissa Wallerstein at W. H. Freeman have shepherded this ...
... University of Arizona. In 1998 he was president of the Geological Society of America. Born and raised in New York City, lay L. Banner was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Midway through his college career, Jay ...
... University, and the University of Kansas, Ed has concentrated on surface water studies, assessments of human impacts on the environment, and science education. Ed's work includes many years of service on Minnesota's state environmental ...
... University's LamontDoherty Earth Observatory. Committed to education as well as science, in earlier years he was provost of Texas A&M University and president of Iowa State University. When he was making what he refers to as "an honest ...
... University Medical Center and followed this with fellowships in general preventive medicine and public health at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. She now serves as the cochair of the National Council of Sun Protection, Ozone ...
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 |