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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... Problems in the physical world are multifaceted; solutions to them will require consideration of ethics and policy as well as judgment informed by cultural, political, social, and historical context. In some cases, to solve the problems ...
... problems there. Like many geologists captivated by the grandeur of Earth's creations, George W. Fisher has studied the rocks that compose mountain belts in an effort to understand how they formed. His recent work links the earth ...
... problems. A MacArthur Foundation fellow, Sue founded Kieffer & Woo, Inc., a research and development company that specializes in nonlinear earth processes and data analysis. She also steers the nonprofit Kieffer Institute for ...
... problems. often involving her students in local environmental research projects. For five years, she chaired Erie County's environmental management council and currently is an active member of the Friends of the Buffalo River, an ...
... problems to see both near and far objects. In geology, a view of rare events far away in space and time gives us the ability and perspective to focus on their possible occurrence and impact in our nearby space and in current and future ...
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 |