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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... issues of planetary change on a global scale—in particular, alterations to the atmosphere. In an effort to spur creative thinking for an environmentally sound and decent future, essayists writing in the final portion of The Earth Around ...
... issues. Currently, he is director of government affairs at the American Geological Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. During the 104th Congress, he worked with the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as the American ...
... issues of sustainability and human health, and to the moral, ethical, and theological dimensions of those issues. A professor of earth and planetary sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, George is also the deputy director of the ...
... issues surrounding high-level nuclear waste. With a Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, she scrutinized the potential problems associated with disposal of high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Currently she is a ...
... issues. She teaches courses on earth history and uses explorations of concepts of justice as a paradigm for studies of the physical environment. She is an associate professor of geology in the geology and geography department atVassar ...
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 |