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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... scientist-writers, whose goal is to empower its readers by giving them access to scientific information that will ... scientists to communicate relevant science in a clear and engaging fashion, and they enthusiastically embrace their ...
... guide communicative scientists and responsible leaders across the globe so that we live attuned to the Earth's natural system of which we are a. part. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS i am grateful to members of the geological community Preface xi.
... scientists who appreciate natural constraints to growth in arid areas. Bill earned a master's degree in geology from Bowling Green State University. As a ljmnologist in the department of biology at the University of Toledo, lohan F ...
... scientists know the things they l<now—or think they know. Her early experiences as a field geologist searching for mineral deposits in Australia led her to question the reasons for the diminished status of field work in geological ...
... scientists face. For this problem, the lenses we use are literally as large as the telescopes that aid our search for meteoroids and as small as the microscopes that allow us to examine them in detail. Floods Whether about 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 |