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Oasis Earth

Author : Rick Steiner

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Page : 260 pages

File Size : 14,7 MB

Release : 2020-03-15

Category : Political Science

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Oasis Earth confirms that we are destroying the biosphere of our Home Planet. We know the causes, consequences, and solutions to this existential crisis, yet we've failed to correct it. We are out of time: this decade is our last best chance to save a habitable Earth. Rich with insights from those who have viewed our planet from space and evocative images from the U.N. Environment Program's international photographic competitions, NASA, Greenpeace and others, Oasis Earth weaves a journey through the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth, the interrelated causes of global ecological collapse, and the path to a livable future.



Earth

Author : Jonathan I. Lunine

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 33,99 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9780521644235

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This is an outstanding overview of the history of the Earth from a unique planetary perspective for introductory courses in the earth sciences. The book approaches Earth history as an evolution, encompassing the origin of the cosmos through the inner working of living cells. Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet tells how the Earth has come to its present state, why it differs from its neighboring planets, what life's place is in Earth's history, and how humanity affects the processes that make our planet livable. Today's human influences are contemplated in the context of natural changes on Earth. This book brings a fresh perspective to the study of the Earth for students who wish to learn how our planet evolved to its present form.



Earth Resources

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Page : 910 pages

File Size : 27,28 MB

Release : 1976

Category : Astronautics in earth sciences

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The Last Oasis

Author : Sandra Postel

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 241 pages

File Size : 16,9 MB

Release : 2014-07-16

Category : Law

ISBN : 1134161581

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For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international security is becoming more and more real. In The Last Oasis, Sandra Postel examines the economic, ecological and political factors affecting fresh water supply. She confronts the issues of mismanagement and profligacy and analyses and dangers of confrontation, both between nations and between rural and urban users. She also emphasises that the technology and know-how for effective water husbandry does exist. With methods already in use, farmers could cut their demand for water by 40-90 per cent, and cities by one-third, without sacrificing economic output or quality of life. Investing in water efficiency, recycling and conservation help meet rising demands and stave off disaster. But the priority is a common recognition of the gravity of the position, and with that a widespread push for institutions to manage sustainable use of water.



The Hollow Earth

Author : Raymond Bernard

Publisher : Health Research Books

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 18,44 MB

Release : 1996-09

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 9780787300975

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1964 Dr. Bernard says this is the true home of the flying saucers. the epoch-making significance of Adm. Byrd's flight for 1,700 miles into the North Polar opening leading to the hollow interior of the earth, the home of a Super Race who are the Creators.



Earth and World

Author : Kelly Oliver

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 19,4 MB

Release : 2015-05-05

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0231539061

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Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that embraces otherness without exploiting difference. Rooted firmly in human beings' relationship to the planet and to each other, Oliver shows peace is possible only if we maintain our ties to earth and world. Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among the world's rich biodiversity.



Earth and Sea

Author : Louis Figuier

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Page : 732 pages

File Size : 14,34 MB

Release : 1870

Category : Physical geography

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International Conference on Earth and Envirnmental Science

Author : Jia Hu

Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 29,59 MB

Release : 2013-11-14

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1605951404

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Environmental Science (ICEES2013), we would like to welcome all of you to Kunming, China to participate in ICEES2013. ICEES2013 is sponsored by China Three Gorges University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University, and Beijing University of Science and Technology. We would like to express my sincere appreciation for their supports to the conference. The ICEES2013 provides a high level international forum to bring together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from institutions, industrials and government agencies to exchange information, share achievements, and discuss the advancement in the fields of earth science, environmental protection and other related areas, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solution adopted. The organizing committee hopes the conference proceedings will provide readers a broad overview of the latest advances on Earth Resources, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Environmental Protection, and Green Energy. The organizing committee also believes this conference proceedings would be a good reference for academic researchers and industrial professionals in these fields. The ICEES2013 organizing committee would like to express our sincere appreciations to all authors for their contributions to this conference. We would like to extend our thanks to all the referees for their constructive comments on all papers. We hope you will have a unique, rewarding and enjoyable weekend at ICESEP2013 in Kunming, China. With my warmest regards, ICESEP2013 Organizing Committee



The Earth Gazers

Author : Christopher Potter

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 546 pages

File Size : 40,18 MB

Release : 2017-09-07

Category : Science

ISBN : 1784974242

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The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were of the whole earth seen from space. They were taken from the moon, almost as an afterthought, by the astronauts of the Apollo space programme. They inspired a generation to think more seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space, the 'blue marble' falling through empty darkness. This is a book about the long road to the capture of those unforgettable images. It is a history of the space programme and of the ways in which it transformed our view of the earth and changed the lives of the astronauts who walked in space and on the moon. It is the story of the often blemished visionaries who inspired that journey into space: Charles Lindbergh, Robert Goddard and Wernher Von Braun, and of the courageous pilots who were the first humans to escape the Earth's orbit.



Biennial Report

Author : Utah. State Road Commission

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Page : 1420 pages

File Size : 45,21 MB

Release : 1917

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