Environmental Science: Systems and SolutionsJones & 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 |
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