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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... Contaminated Soil —Rosa E. Gwinn 300 Part V] WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS 307 Ocean Circulation: Conveyor of Past and Future Climate —Steven M. Stanley 308 A Record of Climate Change from Owens Lake Sediment —Kirsten M. Menking 322 Lessons ...
... contaminants near the Earth's surface. She now works for a major environmental consulting tinn in Bethesda, Maryland, as an environmental geochemist especially trying to resolve problems of contamination at Superfund sites ...
... contamination and remediation led her to work on problems of pollution in the New York—New Jersey Harbor as a consultant at a major environmental firm. Presently, Meg provides technical support to students and faculty in the Geographic ...
... contamination of groundwater supplies and changes in soil chemistry as a result of pesticide and fertilizer use in agriculture, as well as local pollution from the development of oil and gas wellsfill In addition, water storage and use ...
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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 |