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"It's impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still less an academic exercise. It's a survival issue. This is the only planet we have. We're stuck here, and we don't own the place-it would be the height of arrogance to assume that we do. We're tenants here, not owners, but we're tenants with hope for a long-term tenancy. We want to extend our lease just as far as we can."-from Earth: A Tenant's ManualIn Earth: A Tenant's Manual, the distinguished geologist Frank H. T. Rhodes, President Emeritus of Cornell University, provides a sweeping, accessible, and deeply informed guide to the home we all share, showing us how we might best preserve the Earth's livability for ourselves and future generations.Rhodes begins by setting the scene for our active planet and explaining how its location and composition determine how the Earth works and why it teems with life. He emphasizes the changes that are of concern to us today, from earthquakes to climate change and the clashes over the energy resources needed for the Earth's exploding population. He concludes with an extended exploration of humanity's prospects on a complex, protean, and ultimately finite world.It is not a question of whether the planet is sustainable; the challenge facing life on Earth-and the life of the Earth-is whether an expanding and high-consumption species like ours is sustainable. Only new resources, new priorities, new policies and, most of all, new knowledge, can reverse the damage that humanity is doing to our home-and ourselves. A sustainable human future, Rhodes concludes in this eloquent, sobering, but ultimately optimistic book, will require a sense of responsible stewardship, for we are not owners of this planet; we are tenants.Surveying the systems, large and small, that govern Earth's processes and influence its changes, Rhodes addresses the negative consequences of human activities for the health of its regulatory systems but offers practical suggestions as to how we might effect repairs, or at least limit further damage to our home.

Earth sciences --- Earth (Planet) --- Earth

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"This new work covers a broad selection of topics in the field of earth science, including using satellite remote sensing to track pollution and weather patterns, monitoring for pre-earthquake signals, using earthquakes to uncover new information about the earth, desalination of ground water, and predicting deforestation. Also featured are an overview and survey of the new revolution of computer technology for studying the geosciences and a study of the beneficial health--emotional, mental, and physical--effects of rocks, minerals, and geologic processes."--P. [4] of cover.

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Earth (Planet) --- Core. --- Internal structure --- Earth

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Wissenschaftliche Publikationen werden heute fast nur noch in Englisch verfasst. Sowohl für das Verständnis englischsprachiger Fachliteratur als auch für das Verfassen eigener Veröffentlichungen braucht man ein verlässliches Fachwörterbuch. Auch Wissenschaftlern, deren Muttersprache nicht Deutsch ist, wird dieses Werk für das Verständnis deutschsprachiger Literatur eine willkommene Hilfe sein. Volker Schweizer hat sich als erfahrener Übersetzer bekannter geologischer Lehrbücher eine hohe Kompetenz erworben.  Professor Dr. Volker Schweizer, lehrte und forschte am Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut (heute Institut für Geowissenschaften) der Universität Heidelberg.  Although English is the language of science today, many earth scientist and experts in related fields need to read and understand German texts or to communicate in German. For those earth scientists, who have a basic knowledge of the German language but are not familiar with scientific terms, this dictionary will be a highly appreciated aid. Professor Dr. Volker Schweizer, renowned geologist and lecturer at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, is an experienced translator of English textbooks.

Earth sciences. --- Geology. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Geology.