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Environmental science : working with the earth / G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

By:

Miller, G. Tyler Jr [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Pacific Grove, California : Thomson Brooks/Cole, [2004]Edition: Tenth editionDescription: xxiv, 538 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0534424074

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

363.7

Contents:

Part I. Humans and sustainability : an overview

1. Environmental problems, their causes, and sustainability

2. Environmental economics, politics, and worldviews

Part II. Scientific principles and concepts

3. Science, systems, matter, and energy

4. Ecosystems : components, energy flow, and matter cycling

5. Evolution and biodiversity : origins, niches, and adaptation

6. Climate, terrestrial biodiversity, and aquatic biodiversity

7. Community ecology : structure, species interactions, succession, and sustainability

8. Population dynamics, carrying capacity, and conservation biology

9. Environmental geology : processes, minerals, and soils

10. Risk, toxicology, and human health

Part III. Population, resources, and sustainability

11. The human population : growth and distribution

12. Air and air pollution

13. Climate change and ozone loss

14. Water resources and water pollution

15. Solid and hazardous waste

Part IV. Sustaining biodiversity

16. Food resources

17. Sustaining biodiversity : the ecosystem approach

18. Sustaining biodiversity : the species approach

Part V. Energy resources

19. Nonrenewable energy resources

20. Energy efficiency and renewable energy

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Reference	R 363.7 M648e 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Room use only	19376QC

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