Essential environment : the science behind the stories
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Essential environment : the science behind the stories
Pearson Benjamin Cummings, c2009
3rd ed., student ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Description
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories retains all the popular features of its parent volume, Environment: The Science behind the Stories-including its integrated central case study approach and its focus on the scientific process, current data, and critical thinking-in a brief 17-chapter text.
The Third Edition features expanded coverage of global climate change in a new stand-alone chapter. Coverage of geology, minerals, and mining is also enhanced in a new chapter. A new Activities Workbook supplement provides more activities and exercises than ever, and the Viewpoints essays are now in their own supplement with questions and web links. Myenvironmentplace.com offers a diverse selection of resources and interactive exercises that help students succeed in the course and hone the skills they need to make informed decisions on environmental issues.
Table of Contents
I. FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
1. An introduction to environmental science
2. Environmental economics and environmental policy
3. Environmental systems: Chemistry, energy, and ecosystems
4. Evolution, biodiversity, and population ecology
5. Species interactions and community ecology
II. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
6. Human population
7. Soils, agriculture, and the future of food
8. Biodiversity and conservation biology
9. Cities, forests, and parks: Land use and resource management
10. Environmental health and toxicology
11. Geology, minerals, and mining
12. Freshwater and marine systems and resources
13. The atmosphere and air pollution
14. Global climate change
15. Nonrenewable energy sources, their impacts, and energy conservation
16. Renewable energy alternatives
17. Waste management
Epilogue: Sustainable Solutions
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