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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... Forest —Pt'edericic}. Swanson 136 Are Soils Endangered?-—R0naldAmundsen 14-4 The Edwards Aquifer: Water for Thirsty Texans —]ohn M. Sharp, 1:: andlay L. Banner 1 54 From the Catskills to Canal Street: NewYorl< City's Water Supply —}ill ...
... forests, soils, ground and surface waters, and coasts. In the fourth portion, essayists tell true stories about construction projects that defy geological sense. As a hopeful counterpoint to them, the essays in Part V detail ...
... forest in Evansville, Indiana. He has also worked as a hydrogeologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service. Thomas F. Downham II, is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at Wayne State University School ...
... forests. As head of the LongTerm Ecological Research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in western Oregon, Fred has worked closely with forest and stream ecologists to study ...
... forests, wetlands, or coastal estuaries seemed rare. A world traveler will have a perspective on the rareness of various spatial features on the Earth different from that of a local dweller. The traveler will be inclined to say, "Oh ...
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 |