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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... Rocks, Paper, Soils, Trees: The View from an Experimental Forest —Pt'edericic}. Swanson 136 Are Soils Endangered?-—R0naldAmundsen 14-4 The Edwards Aquifer: Water for Thirsty Texans —]ohn M. Sharp, 1:: andlay L. Banner 1 54 From the ...
... rocks [those that precipitated out of seawater) and aquifers [conduits of water through rocks] so that he can ... rock, the movement of sediment, the interaction of people with geology, and the rates at which the surface of the ...
Maintaining A Livable Planet Jill Schneiderman. deformed rocks—and stayed. She is interested in how scientific depictions of nature both influence and reflect popular cultural beliefs. She has worked extensively in the high arctic ...
... rocks that compose mountain belts in an effort to understand how they formed. His recent work links the earth sciences to issues of sustainability and human health, and to the moral, ethical, and theological dimensions of those issues ...
... rock fractures to fluid and heat flow in sedimentary basins such as the Gulf of Mexico. Virginia Ashby Sharpe is a philosopher and deputy director at the Hastings Center in Garrison. New York and specializes in health care ethics and ...
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 |