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The Earth Around Us - Maintaining A Livable Planet (Hardcover)
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The Earth Around Us - Maintaining A Livable Planet (Hardcover)
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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?These vital questions are addressed in
The Earth Around Us, a unique collection of thirty-one essays by a
diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an
ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion, the
contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in
relation to today's environmental issues--and show how we, as
members of a global community, can help maintain a livable planet.
The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts
that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on
it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth
Resources for the twenty-first century, such as public lands,
healthy forests and soils, clean ground and surface waters, and
fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of
landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to
environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the
interactions between living things and the Earth's air, water, and
soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the
earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms
that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced
group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help
readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the
belief that earth science is, and should be, an integral part of
everyday life, The Earth Around Us empowers all of us to play a
more educated and active part in the search for a sustainable
future for our planet and its inhabitants.
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