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

By: Publication details: Pacific Grove ; California : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c2001.Edition: 8th editionDescription: xix, (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0534376134 (text : acidfree paper)
  • 0534376142 (international : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.2 22 MIL
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PART I. HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW
1. Environmental problems, their causes and sustainability

2. Economics, politics, ethics and sustainability

PART II. SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
3. Science, systems and matter

4. Ecosystems and how they work: Connections in nature

5. Evolution, biodiversity and community process

6. Climate, weather and biodiversity

7. Population dynamics Carrying capacity and conservation biology

8. Risk, toxicology and human health

PART III. HUMAN POPULATION, RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY
9. The human population: growth and distribution

10. Air and air pollution

11. Global warming and ozone loss

12. Water resources and water pollution

13. Mineral and soil resources

14. Solid and hazardous waste

PART IV. SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
15. Food resources

16. Protecting food resources: Pesticides and pest control

17. Sustaining terrestrial ecosystems: forests, rangelands parks and wilderness

18. Sustaining wild species

PART V. ENERGY RESOURCES
19. Non-renewable energy resources

20. Energy efficiency and renewable energy

Appendices



Includes bibliographical references and index.

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