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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... Coastal Management Strategies, and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Controversy —Orrin H. Pilkey, David M. Bush, and William I. Neal 198 The Follies of Lotus Bay—]iil K Singer 221 Dredging to Keep New York-New Jersey Harbor Alive —Meg E ...
... coastal hazards are the work of David M. Bush. A member of the National Academy of Sciences post-disaster field study team for both Hurricane Gilbert and Hurricane Hugo, he appreciates the power and dynamism of coastal processes. With a ...
... coastal processes for more than 20 years. A professor of geology at Grand Valley State University in Allendaie, Michigan, in 1993 he received the American Geological institute's award for outstanding contributions to public ...
... coastal estuaries seemed rare. A world traveler will have a perspective on the rareness of various spatial features on the Earth different from that of a local dweller. The traveler will be inclined to say, "Oh, this feature in Asia ...
... coastal beaches. These losses arise despite our certain knowledge that these events will occur. The "annual spring flood" may be small for a few years, or big for a few years, but it will occur in the spring. The more serious problem is ...
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 |