In this unique collection of 31 essays, a diverse array of today's foremost scientist writers comment on global warming, water pollution, coastal erosion and other events that are stretching Earth's ability to provide for humanity. The contributors explore the planet's history and processes and shows how members of the global community can help maintain a livable planet. 28 illus. 4/00.
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In this unique collection of 31 essays, a diverse array of today's foremost scientist writers comment on global warming, water pollution, coastal erosion and other events that are stretching Earth's ability to provide for humanity. The contributors explore the planet's history and processes and shows how members of the global community can help maintain a livable planet. 28 illus. 4/00.
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 104x28x152; 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 by Jill Schneiderman 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 in 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 EarthNever before has such a widely experienced group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help readers understand how earth systems function to produce our physical and biological environment. 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 people and other living things on our planet.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-college library with usual library features/ Very good/ no dust jacket/ library binding Hardcover/ 1972/ 1st editionB&R 301.
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Like New. This book is a first printing and is inscribed by the general editor on the title page. There is very little shelf wear. The binding is in good shape. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light staining on rear panel.; Personalized by the author on the half title page.; 6.5 X 1.75 X 9.5 inches; 475 pages; Signed by Author.
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Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: W H Freeman & Co., 2000, first printing. 8vo., xx+455 pp., illus. Very good plus in price-clipped, very good plus dust jacket.
