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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... RECORDS OF TIME AND HISTORY 1 Geology: The Bifocal Science—Sm:m Werner Kiefier 2 Set Piece on Geologic Time from Annals of the Former World —]0hn McPhee '1 8 Stories of Land, Stories from I..3.nCI—Lauret E. Savoy 28 Henry's I..aI1d ...
... 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: Ozone Depletion and the Health of the Whole——Robin L. Hornang and Thomas E ...
... record environmental information and how the information may be used to understand past environmental conditions on Earth. A professor of pedology (soil science) in the division of ecosystem sciences at the University of California at ...
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. THE €ARTH AROUND Us This page intentionally left blank. P811 I RECORDS OF TIME.
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 |