Key Feature:-
Updated with the latest statistics and reports of important scientific studies, Expanded coverage on topics such as ocean acidification, oil production in the U.S., the warming of the world’s lakes, climate change tipping points, the Great Pacific garbage patch, how pollution prevention pays, the greening of college campuses, and much more.
- NEW inclusion of three social science principles of sustainability show students how to apply important lessons from the social sciences to making our societies and economies more sustainable.
- NEW brief Connections boxes show surprising but important connections between environmental problems and aspects of daily life.
- NEW brief Thinking About boxes help students to make important connections on their own and to apply the concepts of the book to their own lives.
- NEW Doing Environmental Science exercises at the end of chapters help students to experience the work of environmental scientists first-hand.
Table of Contents:-
Introduction: Learning Skills.
PART I: HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW.
1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability.
PART II: SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems.
3. Biodiversity and Evolution.
4. Community Ecology, Population Ecology, and the Human Population.
PART III: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY.
5. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach.
6. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach.
PART IV: SUSTAINING NATURAL RESOURCES.
7. Food Production and the Environment.
8. Water Resources and Water Pollution.
9. Nonrenewable Energy Resources.
10. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
PART V: SUSTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
11. Environmental Hazards and Human Health.
12. Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion.
13. Urbanization and Solid and Hazardous Waste.
PART VI: SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES.
14. Economics, Politics, Worldviews, and the Environment.
Appendix: Units of Measurement.