Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth

by Miller, G. Tyler; Spoolman, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781439049846
• ISBN10: 143904984X
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Sustainability is the integrating theme of this current and thought-provoking book. SUSTAINING THE EARTH provides the basic scientific tools for understanding and thinking critically about the environmental problems we face. About half the price of other environmental science texts, this 14-chapter, one-color core book offers an integrated approach that emphasizes how environmental and resource problems and solutions are related. The concept-centered approach transforms complex environmental topics and issues into key concepts that you will understand and remember. By framing the concepts with goals for more sustainable lifestyles and human communities, you will see how promising the future can be.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Learning Skills

Humans And Sustainability: An Overview

Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Science, Ecological Principles, And sustainability

Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems

Community Ecology, Population Ecology, and the Human Population

Sustaining Biodiversity

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach

Sustaining Natural Resources

Food, Soil, and Pest Management

Water Resources and Water Pollution

Nonrenewable Energy Resources

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Sustaining Environmental Quality

Environmental Hazards and Human Health

Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion

Urbanization and Solid and Hazardous Waste

Sustaining Human Societies

Economics, Politics, Worldviews, and the Environment

Appendix: Units of Measurement

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