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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... impacts on the environment, and science education. Ed's work includes many years of service on Minnesota's state environmental regulatory boards. In 1994 he was selected "Citizen of the Academy” by the American Association for Higher ...
... impacts, volcanism on Earth and other planets, shock-wave physics, and hydraulics of river flow. Aspects of these processes have led her to work closely with mathematicians and apply techniques developed for geology to environmental and ...
... impacts, floods, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes——that affect individuals and civilizations. Then. John McPhee unearths the “abyss of time" in the intellectual rovings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists. Lauret Savoy ...
... Impact, and Armageddon. However, consideration of the possibility and consequences of such events occupies almost no time in our personal thinking, not much of a fraction of most community budgets. Major infrastructure sectors, such as ...
... impacts are rare. And, whereas the effects of a big meteorite impact may be global, the craters formed even by large impacts are small compared with the scale of the Earth. On the time scale of weeks and years, small or medium changes ...
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 |