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1 online resource (478 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I RECORDS OF TIME AND HISTORY; 1 Geology: The Bifocal Science; 2 Set Piece on Geologic Time from Annals of the Former World; 3 Stories of Land, Stories from Land; 4 Henry's Land; Part II SCIENTIFIC JUDGMENTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; 5 Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature; 6 Why Believe a Computer? Models, Measures, and Meaning in the Natural World; 7 Down to Earth: A Historical Look at Government-Sponsored Geology |
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8 Sustainable Living: Common Ground for Geology and Theology9 The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis; Part III RESOURCES RECONFIGURED; 10 Ruling the Range: Managing the Public's Resources; 11 Rocks, Paper, Soils, Trees: The View from an Experimental Forest; 12 Are Soils Endangered?; 13 The Edwards Aquifer: Water for Thirsty Texans; 14 From the Catskills to Canal Street: New York City's Water Supply; 15 Sustaining Healthy Coasts; Part IV LOCAL MANIPULATIONS |
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16 Lessons from Lighthouses: Shifting Sands, Coastal Management Strategies, and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Controversy17 The Follies of Lotus Bay; 18 Dredging to Keep New York-New Jersey Harbor Alive; 19 An Earth Scientist in City Hall: Geology and Community Planning; Part V INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS; 20 From Reservoir to Wetland: The Rise and Fall of an Ohio Dam; 21 Living with Karst: Maintaining a Clean Water Supply in Olmsted County, Minnesota; 22 Standoff at Yucca Mountain: High-Level Nuclear Waste in the United States; 23 Appetite for Toxins: Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil |
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Part VI WHOLE EARTH PERTURBATIONS24 Ocean Circulation: Conveyor of Past and Future Climate; 25 A Record of Climate Change from Owens Lake Sediment; 26 Lessons from the Past for Future Climate; 27 Nature's Sunscreen: Ozone Depletion and the Health of the Whole; Part VII GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES; 28 Let Earth Speak!; 29 Geology and Environmental Justice: An Example from Hawaii; 30 Stakes, Options, and Some Natural Limits to a Sustainable World; 31 What Else Should My Neighbor Know?; Source Notes; Index |
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Print version record |
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Environmental sciences.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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environmental sciences.
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Environmental sciences
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429976285 |
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0429976283 |
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