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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... result is a book of lively essays that will captivate readers desiring basic knowledge that can be used to balance human actions within Earth's natural system. According to environmental activist and writer Robert Gottlieb, a key ...
... result in poor plans. Every year, floods devastate homes built on well-known floodplains, hurricanes destroy fragile houses in areas that are known to experience frequent hurricanes, and waves destroy structures improperly constructed ...
... result of this change in conditions. (Technically, the transition was from supercritical to subcritical flow; and the far more appropriate analogy is supersonic to subsonic deceleration of an aircraft, rather than the elephant on a hose ...
... a thing of indefinite duration . . . . The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end." 3 Stories of Land, Stories from Land Lauret E. Savoy 2 Set Piece on Geologic Time 27.
... result from the complex interplay ofdesert-producing factors: latitudinal position; descending. dry air currents; long rain shadows cast by the Sierra Nevada and other mountains and high plateaus on air masses brought by prevailing ...
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 |