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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... Energy and Natural Resources as the American Geophysical Union's congressional science fellow and also as a professional staff member for the minority party. The interests of Victor R. Baker focus on geomorphology—the study of forces ...
... energy and heat at specific locations. On the time scale of centuries, shooting stars are common, but big meteorite impacts are rare. And, whereas the effects of a big meteorite impact may be global, the craters formed even by large ...
... to alternative methods. Reductions in irrigated acreage and increased water conservation by use of surge irrigation or low-pressure and low-energy sprinkler systems have helped to slow 44 PART I Records ofTime and History.
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. or low-pressure and low-energy sprinkler systems have helped to slow the aquifer's depletion.an Other water issues on the plains include the contamination of groundwater supplies and ...
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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 |