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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... significance of earth and environmental sciences to public policy issues. He is Regents professor and head of the department of hydrology and water resources at The University of Arizona. In 1998 he was president of the Geological ...
... significant geographical and ecological borders in the midcontinent, as well as what historian Walter Prescott Webb, in his book The Great Plains, termed a cultural or "institutional fault.”5 In the United States, the 100th meridian ...
... significant narrative is the story of "desert” encounters. The location and identity of "desert" on the continent changed through the nineteenth century as Euro-Americans in their westward movement encountered diiferent lands through ...
... significant new ideas on the work of uplift, erosion, and time. Together they defined and advanced basic principles regarding development and deformation of the Earth's surface and crust. Powell's intense interest in the relationship of ...
... significantly transformed by Euro-American agricultural settlement and production since the mid-1800s. The question that we now ask is whether such land use. particularly on the semiarid Great Plains, can continue in a sustainable way ...
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 |