Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth An Integrated Approach (with CengageNOW, InfoTrac 1-Semester Printed Access Card)

by Miller, G. Tyler

• ISBN13: 9780495015970
• ISBN10: 0495015970
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line--enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments.About half the price of other environmental science texts, this 14-chapter, one-color core text offers an integrated approach that emphasizes how environmental and resource problems and solutions are related.New to this edition for instructors is PowerLecture, a one-stop shop for lecture prep that includes everything you need to create dynamic lectures all in one place.

Table of Contents

Humans and Sustainability: An Overview

Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews

Scientific Principles and Concepts

Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems: Connections in Nature

Evolution and Biodiversity

Community Ecology, Population Ecology, and Sustainability

Applying Population Ecology: The Human Population

Sustaining Biodiversity

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

Sustaining Key Resources

Food and Soil Resources

Water Resources and Water Pollution

Energy Resources

Sustaining Environmental Quality

Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health

Climate Change, Ozone Loss, and Air Pollution

Solid and Hazardous Waste

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