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Environmental Science: Action for Sustainable Future

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Presenting sustainability as an overarching theme essential to rethinking current policies and practices, this book highlights positive efforts towards implementing sustainability. It presents the key principles of sustainability in the first chapter and develops them throughout the text. The book emphasizes global environmental concerns and presents students with opposing viewpoints on relevant environmental issues and offers them opportunities to apply critical thinking. In this revised edition, four regional versions have been developed to address environmental issues in four different areas of the USA. There are also three new chapters: principles of science and ecology - addressing the sustainable imperative; global environmental challenges - ozone depletion, acid deposition and global warming; and sustainable economic development - challenges facing the developing nations. There are also new critical-thinking exercises which open each chapter with a challenge and end each chapter with a solution.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Principles of environmental science and ecology - addressing the sustainable imperative: environmental science - meeting the challenge of sustainability; ecosystems - how they work and how they sustain themselves; principles of ecology - self-sustaining mechanisms in ecosystems; human ecology - tracing our past, charting a sustainable future. Part 2 Population: population - measuring growth and its impact; population control - key to a sustainable society. Part 3 Resources: feeding the world's people sustainably - food and agriculture; wildlife and plants - preserving biological diversity; grasslands, forest and wilderness - sustainable management strategies; water resources - preserving our liquid assets; non-renewable energy sources; foundations of sustainable energy strategy - conservation and renewable energy; the earth and its mineral resources. Part 4 Pollution: toxic substances - principles and practicalities; air pollution - protecting a global commons; global environmental challenges - ozone depletion, acid deposition and global warming; water pollution - protecting another global commons; pesticides - learning to control pests sustainably; hazardous and solid wastes - dealing with the problem sustainably. Part 5 Environment and society: environmental ethics - the foundation of sustainable society; toward a sustainable human economy - challenges of the industrial world; sustainable economic development - challenges facing the developing nations; government in a sustainable world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780805342154
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Action for Sustainable Future
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 080534215X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 292 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1768 gr


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