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Author:

Bjornerud, Marcia, author.

Title:

Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world / Marcia Bjornerud.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Human ecology.
Geological time.
Time perception.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.
Sustainability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: The allure of timelessness -- A call for timefulness -- An atlas of time -- The pace of the earth -- Changes in the air -- Great accelerations -- Timefulness, utopian and scientific -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. 1. Simplified geologic timescale ; 2. Durations and rates of earth phenomena ; 3. Environmental crises in earth's history : causes and consequences.

Summary:

Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

ISBN:

9780691181202
0691181209

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1028521665

LCCN:

2018945515

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)