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? |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
... specific pressure and temperature conditions. Formation of precious metal deposits is probably a common and ongoing process at this time scale, but these deposits are spatially rare. On the time scale of thousands of years, small ...
... the connection between rarity in space and time. Volcanoes are spatially rare, occurring only in specific settings that we now understand in terms of the framework of plate tectonics. 14 PART I Records ofTime and History.
... specific midcontinent place names on maps and in journals of European explorers and trappers are translations, transliterations, clippings, or reshapings of words drawn from languages of Native American peoples encountered.13 Rivers ...
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1 | |
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 |