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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... Ocean Circulation: Conveyor of Past and Future Climate —Steven M. Stanley 308 A Record of Climate Change from Owens Lake Sediment —Kirsten M. Menking 322 Lessons from the Past for Future Climate—Tamara Namerofi' 336 Nature's Sunscreen ...
... ocean rose over rice paddies and breadbaskets of the delta countries like Bangladesh and Egypt, when the Great Plains dried up and blew away in dust storms that darkened the skies and brought early winter, when the deserts of Africa and ...
... 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. Bierman is a geologist and associate ...
... ocean. Weighing the probability and the possible consequences of impact is a challenge that earth and planetary scientists face. For this problem, the lenses we use are literally as large as the telescopes that aid our search for ...
... Ocean? How many of us are aware that that eruption was well predicted by scientists and that the deaths resulted solely from political choices? Decisions to respond to rare events are extremely difficult: Evacuation of a population ...
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 |