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 Supply in Olmsted County, Minnesota—Carhry::A. Manda-ca 263 Standoff at Yucca Mountain: High-Level Nuclear Waste in the United States—Al.'lison Macfarlane 283 Appetite for Toxins: Biorernediation of Contaminated Soil —Rosa E ...
... water discharge because the reservoirs behind the dams buffer the seasonal, and even decade-scale, variations. These ... supply. and improve navigation conditions on the Nile because they keep water levels fairly constant. Because of the ...
... water supply have also transformed the plains environment in the past several decades. Irrigation of plains farmland began on a small scale by the late nineteenth century with windmills locally pumping shallow groundwater. Demand for ...
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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 |