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The earth is a dynamic arrangement of synergistic and interrelated
systems that has throughout its existence experienced cataclysmic
and devastating events. The earth has had long periods of ice and
snow to mass extinctions and occasional hothouse loads of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere and the oceans. The main difference
between then and now is that this latest dynamic period is
primarily if not solely anthropogenic in nature. At the same time,
we have put in place a global economic system that sees the earth
as a cornucopia of infinite natural resources to be exploited with
little regard for the environmental and social consequences of such
actions. Modern society has witnessed an alienation from the
natural world with consumers losing a sense of the relationship
between the consumption of things and consequent environmental
degradation. Chapter One summarizes the nature of urban
environmental degradation, and its ideological and institutional
roots. Chapter Two examines the relationship between cultures and
environmental use within various adaptive strategies for exploiting
natural resources. Chapter Three focuses on illegal dump sites as
degraded landscape elements. Chapter Four evaluates the extract and
translocate natural radionuclides by volunteer plants that grow
under phosphogypsum stack as a potential phytoremediation
technique. Chapter Five concludes with a review of an island
biogeography of vultures and environmental variation in the
Caribbean.
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