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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... geologist. I also thank Jonathan Schneiderman and Jackie Skiff for their encouragement and shared excitement for my work. My abiding appreciation goes to my parents, Alvin and Myrna Schneiderman, who provided the opportunities that ...
... geologist and associate professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington. His research focuses on the erosion of rock, the movement of sediment, the interaction of people with geology, and the rates at which the surface of the Earth ...
... geologist and so has served on municipal comprehensive planning and conservation committees. He is currently a member of the natural resources committee at Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve, an oldgrowth forest in Evansville, Indiana. He ...
... geologists captivated by the grandeur of Earth's creations, George W. Fisher has studied the rocks that compose mountain belts in an effort to understand how they formed. His recent work links the earth sciences to issues of ...
... geologist and historian of science who worries about how scientists know the things they l<now—or think they know. Her early experiences as a field geologist searching for mineral deposits in Australia led her to question the reasons ...
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 |