Environment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing environmental science and sustainability
- Environmental laws, economics, and ethics
- Ecosystems and energy
- Ecosystems and living organisms
- Ecosystems and the physical environment
- Major ecosystems of the world
- Human health and environmental toxicology
- Population change
- Addressing population issues
- The urban world
- Fossil fuels
- Nuclear energy
- Renewable energy and conservation
- Water: a limited resource
- Soil resources
- Minerals: a nonrenewable resource
- Preserving Earth's biological diversity
- Land resources
- Food resources: a challenge for agriculture
- Air pollution
- Global climate change
- Water pollution
- The pesticide dilemma
- Solid and hazardous wastes
- Tomorrow's world
- Appendices: review of basic chemistry
- Graphing
- Units of measure: some useful conversions
- Abbreviations, formulas, and acronyms used in this text
- Glossary.