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This introduction to environmental issues contains five integrating themes: the global scope of environmental issues; the importance of urban environments; sustainability; human population; and the ethical and economic basis for making choices about environmental issues. These themes are introduced at the beginning and are referred to throughout. In addition, each chapter begins with a case study illustrating the issues discussed.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Environment as an idea: basic issues in environmental sciences; thinking critically about the environment. Part 2 Earth as a system: systems and change; the biogeochemical cycles. Part 3 Life and the environment: the human population as an environmental problem; ecosystems and eco communities; biological diversity and biogeography; biological productivity and energy flow; restoration and recovery - how ecosystems respond to disturbance. Part 5 Sustaining living resources: world food supply; effects of agriculture on the environment; wild living resources- plentiful and endangered; landscapes and seascapes; environmental health and toxicology. Part 6 Energy: energy- some basics; fossil fuels and the environment; alternative energy and the environment; nuclear energy and the environment. Part 6 Water environment: water supply, use and management; water pollution and treatment. Part 7 Air pollution: the atmosphere, climate and global warming; air pollution; indoor air pollution; ozone depletion. Part 8 Environment and society: environmental economics; urban environments; waste management; minerals and the environment; environmental impact and planning; integrating values and knowledge.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471157823
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley and Sons (WIE)
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Earth as a Living Planet
  • Width: 225 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471157821
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jul 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 285 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1729 gr


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