Earth and you : tales of the environment / Charles Officer and Jake Page
- Bib ID:
- 1890506
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Officer, Charles B
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Portmouth, N.H. : Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2000
- ix, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0914339877
- Full contents:
-
- Machine derived contents note: PART I-Yesterday and Today
- CHAPTER 1
- We, as a Species, have Grown to Dominate the Earth-to
- Alter its Landscape and to Eliminate Natural Wilderness
- Areas
- Introduction
- National Parks, Forest Preserves and Wildlife
- Refuges-our national heritage
- Haiti-deforestation
- Brazil-tropical rain forests
- CHAPTER 2
- ...To Overextend the Limits of Water and Land Use,
- Venice-disappearance of a venerable city
- Aral Sea-requiem for an inland sea
- Dust Bowl-desertification
- California and Colorado River-water depletion
- CHAPTER 3
- ...And To Decimate or Drive to Extinction Other Species.
- Buffaloes and marine mammals-animal overkill
- Passenger pigeon and dodo-bird overkill
- Gypsy moth and zebra mussel-introduced species
- CHAPTER 4
- But There are Hopeful Signs, and Corrective Actions
- have been Taken, Largely through the Efforts of
- Individuals-On a Local Scale,
- Love Canal-Lois Gibbs
- Times Beach-Judy Piatt
- Cuyahoga River-Ben Stefanski
- Centralia-Joan Girolami
- CHAPTER 5
- ...On a Regional Scale
- London and Los Angeles-Harold Des Voeux
- Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay-
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Acid rain-Noye Johnson
- Ogallala Aquifer-Groundwater
- Management Districts
- CHAPTER 6
- ...And Even on a National to Global Scale.
- Pesticides-Rachel Carson
- Ozone layer depletion-Mario Molina
- and Sherwood Rowland
- Global warming, part I-Roger Revelle
- Global warming, part II-Wallace Broecker
- Green revolution-Norman Borlaug
- PART II-Tomorrow
- CHAPTER 7
- There is Much More to be Done and it Will Require the
- Concerted Efforts of All of Us.
- Introduction
- Past successes and failures
- Global environmental problems
- CHAPTER 8
- There are two Major Environmental Problems that have to be
- Addressed-Global Population, A Sociological Problem,
- Malthus Theorem
- History of population growth
- Birth control, female education
- Moral and religious leadership
- Family Planning
- International initiative
- CHAPTER 9
- ...And Alternative Energy Sources, a Scientific Problem.
- Natural resources depletion
- Research and development
- Alternative energy sources
- National initiative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Page, Jake
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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