Living in the Environment
by Miller, SpoolmanEdition: 17th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-01-01
Publisher(s): Cengage
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Summary
Learn how to make a difference in our environment! Using sustainability as the central theme, this current and thought-provoking book provides you with basic scientific tools for understanding and thinking critically about the environment and the environmental problems we face. Updated with new information, art, and "Good News" examples, this engaging book offers vivid case studies and hands-on quantitative exercises. The concept-centered approach transforms complex environmental topics and issues into key concepts that you will be able to understand and remember. Overall, by framing the concepts with goals for more sustainable lifestyles and human communities, authors G. Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman enable you to learn and implement useful environmental solutions and see how promising the future can be.
Table of Contents
| Humans And Sustainability: An Overview | |
| Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability | |
| Science, Ecological Principles, And Sustainability | |
| Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems | |
| Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work? | |
| Biodiversity and Evolution | |
| Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control | |
| The Human Population and Its Impact | |
| Climate and Biodiversity | |
| Aquatic Biodiversity | |
| Sustaining Biodiversity | |
| Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach | |
| Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach | |
| Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity | |
| Sustaining Natural Resources | |
| Food, Soil, and Pest Management | |
| Water Resources | |
| Geology and Nonrenewable Minerals | |
| Nonrenewable Energy | |
| Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
| Sustaining Environmental Quality | |
| Environmental Hazards and Human Health | |
| Air Pollution | |
| Climate Change and Ozone Depletion | |
| Water Pollution | |
| Solid and Hazardous Waste | |
| Sustainable Cities | |
| Sustaining Human Societies | |
| Economics, Environment, and Sustainability | |
| Politics, Environment, and Sustainability | |
| Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability | |
| Supplements | |
| Measurement Units | |
| Reading Graphs and Maps | |
| U.S. Environmental History | |
| Some Basic Chemistry | |
| Classifying and Naming Species | |
| Components and Interactions in Major Biomes | |
| Weather Basics, El Ni?o, Tornadoes, and Tropical Cyclones | |
| Maps | |
| Environmental Data and Data Analysis | |
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