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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... Reservoir to Wetland : The Rise and Fall of an Ohio Dam -James E. Evans , Scudder D. Mackey , Johan F Gottgens , and Wilfrid M. Gill 256 Living with Karst : Maintaining a Clean Water Supply in Olmsted County , Minnesota - Cathryn A ...
... Reservoir for this book is part of an interdiscipli- nary effort to understand and characterize sediment flows along the coast of Lake Erie and in adjacent watersheds . Jim strives to understand historical changes in the region and ...
... reservoir and decreasing its storage capacity , although the High Dam is still expected to have a life of 500 years . In turn , storage of sediments behind the dam deprives the river of those sediments downstream . So , instead of ...
... reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam is filled , over 1,000,000 people will have been relocated and 13 cities , 140 towns , more than 1,300 villages , 650 factories , and hundreds of the world's most ancient archeological ruins - some ...
... reservoirs , and canals constructed to hold and redistribute water meant conserving this " resource " for more " efficient " use . In this view , a desert managed by conservation principles could become a garden , a farm , a city . By ...
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 |