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