Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2007 - Всего страниц: 642
The Critical Importance Of Environmental Preservation Is Apparent To Everyone. The Issues Facing Us Today, Be They Global Warming, The Depleting Ozone Layer, The Controversy Over Nuclear Power, Or The Continuing Problems Of Water Pollution And Solid Waste Disposal, Are Headline News. Environmental Science: Systems And Solutions, Fourth Edition, Offers The Basic Principles Necessary To Understand And Address These Multi-Faceted And Often Very Complex Current Environmental Concerns. The Book Provides A Comprehensive Overview And Synthesis Of Environmental Science And Provides The Basic Factual Data Necessary To Understand The Environment As It Is Today. It Is Important That Students Understand How Various Aspects Of The Natural Environment Interconnect With Each Other And With Human Society. Using A Systems Approach, The Authors Have Organized Complex Information In A Way That Highlights These Connections In A Fair And Unbiased Fashion. A Study Guide Is Incorporated At The End Of Each Chapter To Help Reinforce Concepts And Provide A Clear Overview Of Material.

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Chapter
2
What Is Environmental Science?
3
Exponential Growth
10
Defusing
16
Visualizing a Sustainable World
23
About the Authors
24
What Are Your Values?
43
Disease and Global Population
50
Estimating the Unknown
287
Overhunting
296
Which Species to Save?
301
Sustainable Uses of Biodiversity
308
Land of Many Uses
318
Causes of Sprawl
330
Chapter 12
331
Chapter 13
340

1
56
Populations
58
Community Diversity
72
Ecosystem Productivity
79
Major Features
87
What Is Ecology? 60
98
Chapter 5
104
The Dynamic Earth and Natural Hazards
118
SECTION 3
150
How Matter Resources Are Depleted
157
El Niño and Integrated Earth
177
Chapter 7
187
Energy flows
198
Chapter 9
204
Renewable and Alternative Energy
208
56
225
5
226
Energy Efficiency at a National Level
232
The Natural Gas Transition to
240
Water Resources
242
A Global Water Shortage?
249
Chapter 10
250
Desalination
259
Legal Control of Water Use
266
Mineral Resources
270
The Global Safe Drinking Water
273
Chapter 11
286
What Is Soil?
368
SECTION 4
374
Being
380
Toxic Risk Assessment
387
Pesticide Control
402
Chapter 15
404
Water Pollution
408
Treating Wastewater
423
Local and Regional
436
Local
462
Chapter 17
471
Municipal Solid Waste
502
Garbage as a Source of Revenue for Poorer
512
Industrial Ecosystems
523
Superfund
529
Chapter 18
531
SECTION 5
536
Depletion
545
5
552
Chapter 19
557
Historical and Cultural Aspects
564
Chapter 20
565
Environmentalism Since World War II
572
Why Do Small Groups Have
591
Environmental Literacy
597
Sustainable DevelopmentSustainable
630
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