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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... water quality, and attends to the earth science needs of public policymakers and secondary and elementary school educators. He takes seriously the role of citizen-geologist and so has served on municipal comprehensive planning and ...
... water quality specialist at an industrial facility. William]. Neal has conducted investigations of coastal processes for more than 20 years. A professor of geology at Grand Valley State University in Allendaie, Michigan, in 1993 he ...
... quality, the presence of eroded badlands or sand hills, and water availability all influenced the extent of cultivation of the high western plains. Towns in the interior grasslands were initially established along navigable rivers ...
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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 |