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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... groundwater. Our consumption of goods with little concern for the waste we generate has led to overflowing garbage dumps often constructed on the lands of people forced out of economic necessity to take in the waste of other people ...
... groundwater, surface water, and the oceans. The effects of urbanization on aquifers particularly concern him. He is presently an associate professor in the department of geological sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Paul R ...
... groundwater at that time. Wood for building and fuel was limited or nonexistent, as were communication and transportation networks. Although not true desert, the treeless prairies and plains offered lands that were at odds with ...
... groundwater. Demand for irrigation. particularly during drought episodes, encouraged widespread groundwater pumping into this century. Large-scale irrigation by center-pivot and side-roll sprinkler systems and other methods such as ...
... groundwater supplies and changes in soil chemistry as a result of pesticide and fertilizer use in agriculture, as well as local pollution from the development of oil and gas wellsfill In addition, water storage and use that have ...
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 |