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Contents

1

Introduction

Philippe Tortell

9

Earth Sounds

Philippe Tortell, Chris Chafe, Jonathan Girard and Greg Niemeyer

13

Impatient Earth

John Harte and Robert Socolow

23

Climate 1970–2020

Tapio Schneider

33

Politics and Law

Elizabeth May

43

Carbon

David Archer

51

Everyday Biodiversity

Jeffrey R. Smith and Gretchen C. Daily

59

Energy

Elizabeth J. Wilson and Elias Grove Nielsen

67

Forests

Sally N. Aitken

77

Environmental Economics

Don Fullerton

85

Air

Jon Abbatt

93

Geoengineering

Douglas G. MacMartin and Katharine L. Ricke

101

Ice

Julian Dowdeswell

111

Imaging Earth

Edward Burtynsky

133

Mother Earth

Deborah McGregor

141

Sea Level Rise, 1970–2070: A View from the Future

Robert E. Kopp

151

Climate Negotiations

Rosemary Lyster

161

Weather

Neville Nicholls

169

Knowing Earth

Sheila Jasanoff

177

Fish

U. Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly

185

The Global Chemical Experiment

Elsie Sunderland and Charlotte C Wagner

195

Land

Navin Ramankutty and Hannah Wittman

203

Oceans 2020

David M. Karl

213

Earth and Plastic

Roland Geyer

221

Fresh Water

Janet G. Hering

231

Media

Candis Callison

239

Space Junk

Alice Gorman

247

Saving the Boat

Zoe Craig-Sparrow and Grace Nosek

253

Index

263

Author Biographies