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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... deserts of Africa and the new desert of the Amazon spread month by month.”5 Lest this really be our future, every person on this planet must come to appreciate the capacity of humans to act as geological agents at nongeological rates ...
... deserts, Paul is working with his students trenching river and hillslope sediments in the humid Northeast. In recent years he received the Geological Society of America's young scientist award for his promising research on glaciers and ...
... desert southwestern United States. In the eastern United States her interest in environmental contamination and remediation led her to work on problems of pollution in the New York—New Jersey Harbor as a consultant at a major ...
... desert Southwest to midcontinent prairies and grasslands. And finally, Paul Bierman paints a history of natural and human-induced change on aVermont landscape. in the aggregate, these essays reveal the sirnultaneously fleeting yet ...
... desert, or in the ocean. Weighing the probability and the possible consequences of impact is a challenge that earth and planetary scientists face. For this problem, the lenses we use are literally as large as the telescopes that aid our ...
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 |