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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... Models , Measures , and Meaning in the Natural World - Naomi Oreskes 70 Down to Earth : A Historical Look at Government - Sponsored Geology - Gordon P. Eaton 83 Sustainable Living : Common Ground for Geology and Theology -George W ...
... . In particular , he examines shoreface processes , scruti- nizes the viability of beach nourishment plans as a solution to beach erosion , and reviews critically mathematical models used by others to predict beach xviii Contributors.
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. reviews critically mathematical models used by others to predict beach behavior . Orrin is a James B. Duke professor of geology and director of the program for the study of developed ...
... models of how often meteoroids of different sizes impact the Earth . We also can go to observatories and measure the numbers of comets and Earth - crossing asteroids that are currently in the vicinity of our solar system.3 These ...
... models of volcanic processes , as well as rapidly changing ideas of how to make predictions in complex systems , allow us to enhance our understanding of physical processes and our prediction capabili- ties , as well as our knowledge of ...
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 |