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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... Environmental sciences. 2. Nature—Ei'feet of human beings on. I. Title. GE105 .S325 2000 333.7—dc2l 99-05-I152 © 2000 bylill S. Schneiderman. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic ...
... environmental activist and writer Robert Gottlieb, a key element in Rachel Carson's argument in her book Silent Spring was that science and specialized technical knowledge were separated from public input2 and that this separation was ...
... environmental future. Ultimately, the book is an enticing set of true stories with geological themes. Together the essays make a strong case for the centrality of earth science to environmental sustainability. In the dystopic future ...
... environmental studies program, the women's studies program, and the dean of studies office at Vassar College have provided cheer and assistance. My students Latia Bowles, Jennifer Cunningham, Maria de la luz Garcia, China Krieker ...
... environmental information and how the information may be used to understand past environmental conditions on Earth. A professor of pedology (soil science) in the division of ecosystem sciences at the University of California at Berkeley ...
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 |