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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... processes that ground our environmental problems. In the search for a life-sustaining future, geological knowledge is central. As an epigraph to Silent Spring, Rachel Carson quoted writer E. B. White: “I am pessimistic about the human ...
... process. Jodi Simpson meticulously copyedited the final manuscript. My family has tolerated the long hours of work that have taken me away from the usual fun we have together. Caleb ]. S. Schneiderman, at one and a half years of age ...
... process and coastal hazards are the work of David M. Bush. A member of the National Academy of Sciences post-disaster field study team for both Hurricane Gilbert and Hurricane Hugo, he appreciates the power and dynamism of coastal processes ...
... processes. In particular, he studies biomanipulation of aquatic ecosystems and lake and reservoir management. Stephen Jay Gould teaches geology, history of science, and biology at Harvard University and New York University. He has ...
... processes have led her to work closely with mathematicians and apply techniques developed for geology to environmental and medical problems. A MacArthur Foundation fellow, Sue founded Kieffer & Woo, Inc., a research and development ...
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 |