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| 1 |
George Kennan | The Salton Sea: An Account of Harriman's fight with the
Colorado River | 1917 | History of the formation of the Salton Sea |
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| 2 |
Vladimir I. Vernadsky | The Biosphere | 1926 | The functioning of the biosphere |
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| 3 |
Rachel Carson | Silent Spring | 1962 | The environmental impact of pesticides |
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| 4 |
James Lovelock | Gaia: A new look at life on Earth | 1979
| The relation between atmosphere and biosphere |
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| 5 |
Mark Reisner | Cadillac Desert | 1984
| The plight of water supply in Southern California |
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| 6 |
Mikhail I. Budyko | The Evolution of the Biosphere | 1986 | The development of the biosphere through geologic time |
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| 7 |
The Brundtland Commission | Our Common Future | 1987 | Birth of the concept of sustainable development |
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| 8 |
John McPhee | "Atchafalaya" in The Control of Nature | 1989
| Hydraulic engineering control of the Lower Mississippi river |
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| 9 |
Al Gore | Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | 1991 | Contemporary
environmental awareness |
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| 10 |
Al Gore | An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming | 2004 | Public awareness on global climate change |
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| 11 |
Max Arax and Rick Wartzman | The King of California: J. G. Boswell
and the Making of a Secret American Empire | 2004
| Development of irrigation in California's Central valley Tulare Lake |
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| 12 |
James Lovelock | The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back | 2006
| The Earth's climate crisis |
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| 13 |
Linus Torvalds | Just for fun: The story of an accidental revolutionary | 2002
| Autobiography of the creator of the Linux operating system |
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| 14 |
Tim Berners-Lee | Weaving the web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the world wide web
| 2000
| The creation of the WWW as told by its creator |
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| 15 |
Robert Glennon | Water follies: Groundwater pumping and the fate of America's fresh waters | 2002
| The case for groundwater sustainability |
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| 16 |
Spencer Wells | The journey of man: A genetic odyssey
| 2002
| The history and development of early humankind (genetics, paleontology, and climatology) |
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