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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... understand Earth's history and processes that ground our environmental problems. In the search for a life-sustaining ... understands and appreciates our kaleidoscopic Earth can guide communicative scientists and responsible leaders ...
... understand past environmental conditions on Earth. A professor of pedology (soil science) in the division of ecosystem sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, he studies the role of soils in the global carbon cycle and the ...
... understand and characterize sediment flows along the coast of Lake Erie and in adjacent watersheds. Iim strives to understand historical changes in the region and develop new solutions to environmental problems there. Like many ...
... understand the intellectual preferences and predilections of scientists in historical and cultural terms. An associate professor of history of science at the University of California at San Diego, Naomi has written most recently The ...
... understand the processes that will help create livable conditions on Earth. Jill's idea for this book came from her desire to help all people understand that earth science is crucial to our ability to enable human beings to live ...
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 |