Environmental science / by Robert Kaufmann, Cutler Cleveland
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TextPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : McGraw-Hill, [2008]Description: xix, 552 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)Content type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780071101967
- 363.7
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction to environmental science
Chapter 1. Environment and society : a sustainable partnership?
Part II. Building a framework to study environmental problems
Chapter 2. The laws of energy and matter
Chapter 3. Systems : why are environmental problems so difficult to solve?
Part III. How the natural environment works
Chapter 4. The physical systems of planet earth : the engine of life
Chapter 5. The flow of energy in biological systems : why does it matter?
Chapter 6. The flow of the matter in the environment : why does it matter?
Chapter 7. Biomes : where do plants and animals live?
Chapter 8. Succession : how do ecosystems respond to disturbance?
Part IV. How human systems work
Chapter 9. Carrying capacity : how large a population?
Chapter 10. An ecological view of the economy
Chapter 11. The driving forces of environmental change
Part V. Global environmental challenges
Chapter 12. Biodiversity : species and so much more
Chapter 13. Global climate change : a warming planet?
Chapter 14. A reduction in atmospheric ozone : let the sunshine in
Part VI. Living off the land: soils, food production, and forests
Chapter 15. Soil : a potentially sustainable resource
Chapter 16. Agriculture : the ecology of growing food
Chapter 17. Forests : so much more than wood
Part VII. Air and water resources
Chapter 18. Water resources
Chapter 19. Air pollution : costs and benefits of clean air?
Part VIII. Energy and materials
Chapter 20. Fossil fuels : the life blood of the global economy
Chapter 21. Nuclear power
Chapter 22. Renewable energy and energy efficiency
Chapter 23. Materials, society, and the environment
Chapter 24. A sustainable future : will business as usual get us there?
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