Consider a spherical cow: a course in environmental problem solving
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1988
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Chapter I WARM-UP EXERCISES
1
1.
Counting Cobblers
3
2.
Measuring Molecules
5
3.
The Size of an Ancient Asteroid
7
4.
Exhausting Fossil Fuel Resources (I)
10
5.
Getting Denser
11
6.
The Greens We Eat
15
7.
Sulfur in Coal
19
Chapter II TOOLS OF THE TRADE
21
A. Steady-State Box Models and Residence Times
23
1.
School as a Steady-State System
24
2.
The Water Above
26
3.
Carbon in the Biosphere
28
4.
Natural SO2
32
5.
Anthropogenic SO2
34
6.
A Polluted Lake
36
7.
The Flow of Atmospheric Pollutants between
Hemispheres
40
8.
A Perturbed Phosphorus Cycle (I)
45
9.
Where Would All the Water Go?
50
10.
Aluminum in the Himalaya
55
11.
An Indoor Risk
59
X
CONTENTS
Β.
Thermodynamics and Energy Transfer
65
12.
Electricity from Junk Mail
67
13.
How Hot Is Planet Earth?
69
14.
Milk and Muscle
74
15.
Debunking a Dynamo
77
16.
Cooling Off Hot Plants
79
17.
When Waters Mix
83
18.
Bouncing Sunbeams
89
C. Chemical Reactions and Equilibria
95
19.
Altering the Atmosphere by Burning Fossil Fuels
100
20.
The
pH
of Pristine Precipitation
104
21.
Natural Acidity from Biological Processes
109
D. Non-Steady-State Box Models 111
22.
Exhausting Fossil Fuel Resources (II)
112
23.
Pollution Buildup in a Lake
114
Chapter III BEYOND THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE
117
A. Biogeochemistry
119
1.
Acid Rain
120
2.
Mobilization of Trace Metals
124
3.
Tracing the Carbon Cycle
128
4.
Atmospheric CO2 and the Ocean Sink
138
5.
A Perturbed Phosphorus Cycle (II)
150
B. Climatology
158
6.
Earth s Surface Temperature
160
7.
Land Use and Climate
172
8.
The CO2 Greenhouse Effect
176
9.
Urban Heat Islands
187
С
Survival of Populations
193
10.
Pesticides That Backfire
195
11.
Optimal Harvesting
198
12.
Biomagnification of Trace Substances
205
13.
Rabbits on the Road
211
14.
Approaching a Steady-State Population in China
216
15.
An Unanswered Question
224
Appendix: Useful Numbers
227
Glossary
267
Bibliography
271
Answers to Exercises
275
Index
279
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