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.
Maintaining A Livable Planet
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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.
- ISBN:
- 9780813340913
- 9780813340913
- Category:
- Pollution & threats to the environment
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 24-01-2003
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 479
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x32mm
- Weight:
- 0.89kg
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