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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... landscapes. in particular, he studies the flow of ancient rivers, the effects of floods on land shape, and the forces that have sculpted the surfaces of Mars and Venus. He also pursues work on the history and philosophy of the earth ...
... [landscape photography and painting], history [American studies), and. ultimately. geology. As an associate professor in geology and geography at Mount Holyoke College, her current research and teaching interests focus on the "reading ...
... landscape is an accumulation. The past endures. —Donald W. Mein lg We The Earth has a vast history, of which humans are a part. "Races of events that characterize Earth's history lurk amidst landscapes—they convey a context for human ...
... landscape full of fences and trees with a phaeton-and-two on a road above the rivercut, driver whipping the steeds, rushing through a moment in the there and then. "I was soon satisfied with regard to this phenomenon," Hutton wrote ...
... landscape patterns from the East Coast westward over 3,000 miles present condensed narratives of Earth and human ... landscapes have shaped human perceptions and influenced their actions. Conversely, and in very different ways, humans ...
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 |