| Description |
xxxii, 649 pages, 52 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
1. Basic Issues in Environmental Science -- 2. Thinking Critically About the Environment -- 3. Systems and Change -- 4. The Biogeochemical Cycles -- 5. The Human Population as an Environmental Problem -- 6. Ecosystems and Ecological Communities -- 7. Biological Diversity and Biogeography -- 8. Biological Productivity and Energy Flow -- 9. Succession and Restoration: How Ecosystems Respond to Disturbance -- The Earth's Biomes -- 10. World Food Supply -- 11. Effects of Agriculture on the Environment -- 12. Wild Living Resources: Plentiful and Endangered -- 13. Landscapes and Seascapes -- 14. Environmental Health and Toxicology -- 15. Energy: Some Basics -- 16. Fossil Fuels and the Environment -- 17. Alternative Energy and the Environment -- 18. Nuclear Energy and the Environment -- 19. Water Supply, Use, and Management -- 20. Water Pollution and Treatment -- 21. The Atmosphere, Climate, and Global Warming -- 22. Air Pollution -- 23. Indoor Air Pollution -- 24. Ozone Depletion |
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25. Environmental Economics -- 26. Urban Environments -- 27. Waste Management -- 28. Minerals and the Environment -- 29. Environmental Impact and Planning -- 30. Integrating Values and knowledge -- App. A. Special Feature: EMR Laws -- App. B. Prefixes and Multiplication Factors -- App. C. Common Conversion Factors -- App. D. Geologic Time Scale and Biologic Evolution |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Environmental sciences -- Case studies.
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Environmental sciences.
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Human ecology.
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Sustainable development.
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| Author |
Keller, Edward A., 1942-
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| LC no. |
97001742 |
| ISBN |
0471157821 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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