Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

From the reviews:

" Earth will not last forever; it will take many human generations for most of Earth s problems to manifest, at the very least. One may consider these the problems of far-off generations or, as Beech does in Terraforming, one might consider how to begin to create new homes on Mars or Venus. Beech describes our modern view of the solar system, emphasizing the resources available to us on the familiar planets . Summing Up: Recommended. General and academic audiences, lower-division undergraduate and above. " (C. Palma, Choice, Vol. 47 (1), September, 2009)

`The ultimate aim of terraforming is to alter a hostile planetary environment into one that is Earth like, and eventually upon the surface of the new and vibrant world that you and I could walk freely about and explore. nicely produced and illustrated book, then carries on with a mixture of just enough actual scientific detail to make the extensive science fantasy, not science fiction but science fantasy, plausible to many readers. interest to scientists and engineers . (Gary J. Long and Fernande Grandjean, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 2, 2011)