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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... In particular, he examines shoreface processes, scrutinizes 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 lames B. Duke professor of geology and director of the program for the study of developed ...
... predict and to define the hazards and their consequences. Scientific research and monitoring groups, such as the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, study and try to understand these events. Even ...
... predictions about larger and rarer events. If we see shooting stars and understand what causes them, then we have some basis for understanding that bigger shooting stars may exist. With scientific measurements, we find that the shooting ...
... predict exactly when or where an impact might occur until we actually see an object heading on a trajectory toward us. As more measurements on the trajectory and the size of the object are obtained, our ability to predict the ...
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 |