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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... reflect popular cultural beliefs. She has worked extensively in the high arctic (Svalbard, Ellesmere Island}, where Earth's simultaneous iierceness and fragility are in evidence everywhere. She is associate professor of geology at ...
... reflects this multidisciplinary approach. He is a professor in the department of earth and planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He is also coauthor with David Raup of Principles of Paleontology. Meg E. Stewart is a geologist ...
... reflects on the rare and the routine among geological events—meteorite impacts, floods, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes——that affect individuals and civilizations. Then. John McPhee unearths the “abyss of time" in the intellectual ...
... reflect their statistical likelihoods: “the annual flood," "the hundred-year drought," or "the thousand-year forest fire." Up to intervals of about a century, these events are part of familiar, intuitive experience. in many places ...
... reflects a dilfen ent possible narrative, and a separate attempt to understand that land. One significant narrative is the story of "desert” encounters. The location and identity of "desert" on the continent changed through 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 |