Annual Editions: Environment 10/11

by Sharp, Zachary

• ISBN13: 9780073515564
• ISBN10: 0073515566
• Edition: 29th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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Table of Contents

Preface

Correlation Guide

Topic Guide

Internet References

The Global Environment: An Emerging World View

Unit Overview

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers

Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security

China Needs Help with Climate Change

Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Population, Policy, and Economy

Unit Overview

Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development?

Paying for Climate Change

High-Tech Trash: Will Your Discarded TV or Computer End up in a Ditch in Ghana?

Down with Carbon: Scientists Work to Put the Greenhouse Gas in Its Place

Energy: Present and Future Problems

Unit Overview

Gassing up with Hydrogen

Wind Power: Obstacles and Opportunities

A Solar Grand Plan

The Rise of Renewable Energy

What Nuclear Renaissance?

The Biofuel Future: Scientists Seek Ways to Make Green Energy Pay Off

Putting Your Home on an Energy Diet

Biosphere: Endangered Species

Unit Overview

Forest Invades Tundra . . . and the New Tenants Could Aggravate Global Warming

America’s Coral Reefs: Awash with Problems

Seabird Signals

Taming the Blue Frontier

Nature’s Revenge

Resources: Land and Water

Unit Overview

Tracking U.S. Groundwater: Reserves for the Future?

How Much Is Clean Water Worth?

Searching for Sustainability: Forest Policies, Smallholders, and the Trans-Amazon Highway

Diet, Energy, and Global Warming

Landfill-on-Sea

The Politics of Climate Change

Unit Overview

The Truth about Denial

Swift Boating, Stealth Budgeting, and Unitary Executives

The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus

How to Stop Climate Change: The Easy Way

Environmental Justice for All

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