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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... federal lands in Callfomia, Idaho, Montana, and Washington. This sparked his interest in public land issues. Currently, he is director of government affairs at the American Geological Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. During the 104th ...
... Federal Emergency Management Agency, that respond to crises brought on by natural phenomena need to know what to expect from and how to respond to crises. Likewise, insurance companies care about a suitable definition of rare because ...
... federal policies that enabled the transfer of public lands into private ownership. In many ways similar to the settlement of prairie land to the east, the Great Plains were parceled into numerous small, independent farms or homesteads ...
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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 |