Earth and the human future : essays in honor of Harrison Brown

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Tables and Figures = xi
• Foreword, Victor Hao Li = xiii
• PART ONE
• EARTH, PLANETS, AND COSMOS
• Introduction / Kirk R. Smith = 3
• 1. The Early Years : Chicago and Pasadena = 7
• Harrison Brown : Professor and Model / Edward D. Goldberg = 7
• Harrison Brown's Influence on Twentieth-Century Developments in Geochronology / Clair Patterson = 10
• Harrison Brown's Influence on Planetary Science at Caltech / Bruce Murray = 14
• 2. Harrison Brown and the Astronomers / Jesse L. Greenstein = 18
• 3. The Abundances of the Elements and Some Reflections on the Cosmogony of the Solar System / Fred Hoyle = 28
• 4. Evidence for Ring Systems Orbiting Earth in th Geologic Past, / Richard P. Sheldon = 45
• PART TWO
• DIMENSIONS OF THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT : POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT
• Introduction / John P. Holdren = 73
• 5. Harrison Brown's Role in the Manhattan Project / Glenn T. Seaborg = 81
• 6. Burning the Rocks Forty Years Later / Alvin M. Weinberg = 110
• 7. Energy and the Human Predicament / John P. Holdren = 124
• 8. Soil Dynamics and Sustainable Carrying Capacity of Earth / Roger Revelle = 161
• 9. Speculating on the Global Resource Future / Gilbert F. White = 173
• PART THREE
• INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
• Introduction / Fereidun Fesharaki = 189
• 10. The Cooperative Imperative in Science and Technology / Victor Rabinowitch and John Hurley = 193
• 11. Science, Technology, and Endogenous Development : Some Notes on the Objectives and the Possibilities / Victor L. Urquidi = 208
• 12. Toward Institutions of Unity for the Global Gommons / Rector Soedjatmoko = 227
• 13. International Collaborative Research : The Experience of the Resource Systems Institute ／ Robert H. Randolph and kirk R / Smith = 236
• About the Contributors = 255