Environmental Science: The Way the World WorksRevolving around the principles of sustainability, this new edition sets out to provide students with a balanced, complete treatment of environmental issues - their scientific basis, history and future. Material is revised to reflect changing environmental understanding and issues. |
Contents
The Aim of Environmental Science | 1 |
Thinking Environmentally | 13 |
PART | 15 |
Implications for Humans 92 | 16 |
Ecosystems As Resources | 19 |
Review Questions 93 | 43 |
How They Work | 45 |
Principles of Ecosystem Function | 60 |
Major Air Pollutants and Their Effects | 338 |
Pollutant Sources and Control Strategies | 344 |
Indoor Air Pollution | 354 |
Major Atmospheric Changes | 358 |
Acid Deposition | 360 |
Global Warming | 368 |
Depletion of the Ozone Shield | 375 |
Review Questions | 381 |
An Upsidedown Food | 67 |
What Keeps Them the Same? What Makes | 72 |
Two Kinds of Population Growth Curves and | 84 |
Adapting to Changeor | 94 |
What is a Species? | 105 |
MAKING A DIFFERENCE | 118 |
PART | 121 |
Addressing the Population Problem | 144 |
Reducing Fertility | 153 |
Review Questions | 167 |
Hunger Malnutrition and Famine | 178 |
Building Sustainability into the Food Arena | 184 |
Losing Ground | 198 |
Other Factors Harming the Soil Ecosystem | 206 |
Review Questions | 212 |
Problems Stemming From Chemical Pesticide | 218 |
Water the Water Cycle and Water | 238 |
Summary of the Water Cycle | 244 |
Implementing Solutions | 262 |
Sediments Nutrients and Eutrophication | 268 |
Controlling Eutrophication | 279 |
Review Questions | 289 |
Sewage Pollution and Rediscovering the Nutrient Cycle | 290 |
Taking Stock | 307 |
Cleanup of Hazardous Waste Sites | 324 |
Future Management | 330 |
Risks and Economics of Pollution | 382 |
Risk Analysis Perception and Management | 390 |
Conclusion | 396 |
PART FOUR | 401 |
Intrinsic Value | 408 |
Saving Wild Species | 416 |
Biological Systems in a Global Perspective | 422 |
Ecosystems under Pressure | 429 |
Conclusion | 441 |
Solutions | 448 |
The Rise and Fall | 457 |
Promise and Problems | 480 |
Review Questions | 501 |
Additional Renewable Energy Options | 522 |
Lifestyle and Sustainability | 528 |
Moving Toward a Sustainable Society | 539 |
Epilogue | 552 |
A Beach for the Birds 418 | 556 |
The Rights of Smokers 356 | 557 |
A Sense of Justice | 561 |
Pests and Pest Control | 571 |
528 | 576 |
Units of Measure | 587 |
Glossary | 597 |
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