Description |
xx, [676] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: It Takes a Community -- 1.1.Environment and Sustainability -- The Environment and You -- Defining Sustainable Actions -- Planet, People, and Profit: The Triple Bottom Line -- Seeing Solutions: DIRTT -- 1.2.Ecosystems -- Ecosystem Function and Integrity -- Ecosystem Services -- 1.3.Principles of Ecosystem Function -- Conservation of Matter and Energy -- Ecosystems Are Open -- Ecosystem Stability -- Ecosystem Change -- 1.4.Acting Sustainably -- Managing Resources -- Understanding Boundaries -- Maintaining Balance and Integration -- Embracing Change -- 1.5.Uncertainty, Science, and Systems Thinking -- Uncertainty -- Reducing Uncertainty with Science -- Systems Thinking -- Focus On Science: Ways of Knowing -- 1.6.Sustainable Development, The Environment, and You -- Sustainable Development Goals -- Challenges to Sustainable Development -- Agents Of Change: Earth Rebirth -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Dam-nation! -- |
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Contents note continued: 2.1.Changing Views of Humans and Nature -- Pre-Industrial Views -- The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution -- Living in the Modern World: Conservation vs. Preservation -- 2.2.Environmental Ethics -- Doing the Right Thing -- Who or What Matters? -- Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice -- 2.3.The Environment and the Marketplace -- Economic Systems -- Supply and Demand -- Economic Value -- Market Complications -- 2.4.Valuing Ecosystems -- Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services -- Ecological Valuation -- Focus On Science: Calculating Ecological Value -- Measuring the Wealth of Nations -- 2.5.Environmental Policy: Deciding and Acting -- The Policy Cycle -- Policy Decision Framework -- 2.6.U.S. Environmental Law and Policy -- Governmental Functions -- The Constitution and Environmental Policy -- 2.7.International Environmental Law and Policy -- Environmental Laws -- International Institutions -- |
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Contents note continued: Seeing Solutions: The Global Environmental Facility and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor -- Agents Of Change: Reducing Plastic Waste at the University of Puerto Rico -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Searching for Life Elsewhere -- 3.1.Chemistry of the Environment -- Atoms and Isotopes -- Molecules and Ionic Compounds -- The Water Molecule -- 3.2.The Organic Chemistry of Life -- Biological Chemicals -- 3.3.Energy and the Environment -- Energy -- Laws of Thermodynamics -- Forms of Energy -- Energy Units -- 3.4.Earth's Structure -- The Core, Mantle, and Crust -- Building and Moving Continents -- The Rock Cycle -- 3.5.Element Cycles in Earth's Ecosystems -- Biogeochemical Cycles -- Nutrients -- 3.6.Earth's Atmosphere -- Composition of Gases -- Layers of the Atmosphere -- Water in the Atmosphere -- 3.7.Earth's Energy Budget, Weather, and Climate -- Earth's Energy Budget -- Weather and Climate -- Wind Cells -- Ocean Currents -- |
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Contents note continued: The Seasons -- Depicting Earth's Climate -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Genetic Change and Population Growth-Fact and Fiction -- 4.1.The Cell-The Fundamental Unit of Life -- Cell Structure -- Energy Transformations and the Cell -- 4.2.DNA Is the Key to the Diversity of Life -- Reproduction -- Mutations -- Phenotypes -- 4.3.The Growth of Populations -- Birth, Death, and Migration -- Exponential Population Growth: A Case Study -- Survivorship and Fertility -- 4.4.Limits on Population Growth -- Environmental Resistance Limits Growth -- Alternative Patterns of Population Growth -- Focus On Science: The Myth of Lemming Suicide Other Limits on Population Growth Habitat and Ecological Niche -- 4.5.Evolution and Natural Selection -- Darwin's Finches -- Finch Studies Continue -- Natural Selection Works on Inherited Variations -- Evolution Is Genetic Change -- 4.6.The Evolution of Species -- Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms -- |
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Contents note continued: 4.7.The Hierarchy of Life -- Evolutionary Map -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Human Population Growth-By the Numbers -- 5.1.The History of Human Population Growth -- Three Periods of Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Demography Is Not Destiny -- Demographic Transition Model -- A Tale of Two Countries -- 5.2.Global Variation in Human Population Growth -- Birth Rate -- Death Rate -- Age Structure -- Migration -- 5.3.Predicting Human Population Growth -- Population Growth Forecasts -- Focus On Science: Forecasting Future Population Trends and Their Uncertainties -- 5.4.Managing Population Growth -- Family Planning -- Development and Population -- Aging Populations -- Two Approaches to Population Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Women Deliver -- 5.5.Resource Use and Population Sustainability -- Sustainability vs. Carrying Capacity -- Human Resource Use -- Affluence and Technology -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Straight Poop on Dung Beetles -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.1.Competition for Shared Resources -- Interspecific Competition -- How Competitors Coexist -- Exploitation and Interference -- 6.2.Herbivory, Predation, and Parasitism -- Herbivores -- Predators -- Parasites -- 6.3.Mutualism and Commensalism -- Mutualisms and Commensalisms -- 6.4.The Flow of Energy in Ecological Communities -- Food Chains -- Energy and Biomass Pyramids -- Food Web and Species Diversity -- Keystone Species -- Focus On Science: The Little Things Do Matter -- 6.5.The Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Productivity -- The Carbon Cycle -- Terrestrial Carbon -- Aquatic and Marine Carbon -- Human Impacts -- 6.6.Disturbance and Community Change -- Primary Succession -- Secondary Succession -- Cyclic Succession -- The Importance of Place and Time -- Agents Of Change: Vermicomposting at Michigan State University -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Exploring Life's Diversity and Geography -- 7.1.The Geography of Terrestrial Biomes -- |
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Contents note continued: Characteristics of Terrestrial Biomes -- 7.2.Tropical Biomes -- Tropical Rain Forest -- Tropical Seasonal Forest -- Tropical Savanna -- 7.3.Temperate Biomes -- Temperate Deciduous Forest -- Temperate Evergreen Forest -- Chaparral -- Temperate Grassland -- 7.4.Polar Biomes -- Boreal Forest -- Tundra -- 7.5.Deserts -- Defining Deserts -- 7.6.Mountains and Coastlines -- Mountains -- Focus On Science: Shifting Biomes -- Coastlines -- 7.7.Aquatic Biomes -- Streams -- Lakes and Ponds -- Wetlands -- 7.8.Marine Biomes -- Estuaries -- Oceans -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Back from the Brink? -- 8.1.What Is Biodiversity? -- Landscape Biodiversity -- Community Biodiversity -- Genetic Biodiversity -- 8.2.Why Biodiversity Matters -- Existence Value -- Ecosystem Functions and Services -- Ecosystem Stability -- Economic Value -- 8.3.Global Patterns of Biodiversity -- Mapping Species Richness -- Biodiversity Hotspots -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.4.Differences in Biodiversity Among Communities -- Habitat Diversity -- Species Interactions -- Disturbance -- Local Immigration and Extinction Rates -- 8.5.Threats to Biodiversity -- Habitat Loss and Degradation -- Habitat Fragmentation -- Overharvesting -- Non-Native Invasive Species -- Pollution -- Altered Patterns of Disturbance -- Climate Change -- 8.6.Strategies for Conserving Biodiversity -- Preserves and Protected Areas -- Focus On Science: Conservation Corridors -- Managing Populations of Individual Species -- 8.7.U.S. Policies for Conserving Biodiversity -- National Parks and Wilderness Areas -- Legislation to Protect Species -- Conservation on Private Land -- 8.8.International Policies for Conserving Biodiversity -- Endangered Species Trade and Harvest -- Economic Incentives for Conservation -- Seeing Solutions: Keeping Things Connected -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- A World of Change -- 9.1.Long-Term Climate Patterns -- |
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Contents note continued: The Pleistocene-The Last 2 Million Years -- Holocene-The Last 10,000 Years -- 9.2.Measuring Global Temperature -- Measuring Recent Climate Change -- Causes of Natural Climate Variation -- 9.3.Causes of Global Warming -- The Greenhouse Effect -- Human Impacts -- Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 9.4.Consequences of Global Warming -- Drier and Wetter -- Melting Glaciers and Ice Sheets -- Rising Sea Level -- Changing Populations and Ecosystems -- 9.5.Forecasting Global Warming -- Computer Simulation of Global Warming -- Forecasting Scenarios -- Forecast Consequences -- 9.6.Mitigating Global Warming -- Defining the Challenge -- Efficiency and Conservation -- Fossil Fuel Use -- Renewable Energy -- Nuclear Energy -- Biostorage -- 9.7.Adapting to Global Warming -- Committed Warming, Inevitable Change -- Focus On Science: Adapting to Rising Seas -- 9.8.Mitigation and Adaptation Policies -- What Is the Cost? -- Policy Alternatives -- Agreeing on the Facts -- |
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Contents note continued: International Global Change Policy -- Seeing Solutions: A State of Change -- Agents Of Change: Human Power Brings Energy to the Power Pad -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Killer Smog -- 10.1.Air Quality and Air Pollution -- Gases and Particles -- Sources of Air Pollution -- Dispersion and Deposition of Air Pollution -- 10.2.Pollution in the Stratosphere -- Aerosols and Climate -- Stratospheric Ozone Destruction -- Focus On Science: Laboratory Science Predicts Global Effects -- 10.3.Pollution in the Troposphere -- Acid Deposition -- Heavy Metals -- Smog -- Air Quality Index -- 10.4.Indoor Air Pollution -- Combustion By-Products -- Seeing Solutions: Taking the Fire out of Cooking -- Building Materials -- Radon -- Pesticides -- Biological Contaminants -- 10.5.Air Pollution Policy and Law -- U.S. Air Pollution Policy -- International Air Pollution Policy -- Co-Benefits -- Agents Of Change: Resisting a Waste Incinerator in Baltimore -- |
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Contents note continued: Synthesis And Key Concepts -- A Disappearing Resource -- 11.1.Water World I -- The Hydrologic Cycle and Earth's Water Budget -- The Geography of the Hydrologic Cycle -- Watersheds -- Providing Essential Ecosystem Services -- Where Is Earth's Fresh Water? -- 11.2.Groundwater -- Characteristics of Groundwater -- Human Uses and Impacts -- 11.3.Water Distribution -- Too Much Water -- Too Little Water -- Subsidence and Intrusion -- 11.4.Water Quality -- Water Pollution -- Effects of Water Pollution on Ecosystems -- Focus On Science: Measuring an Ocean of Plastic -- 11.5.Water Management and Conservation -- Regulating the Flow -- Seeing Solutions: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation-50 Years of a Private-Public Partnership -- Managing and Conserving Water Used in Agriculture -- Water Reuse -- Desalination -- Getting the Price Right -- 11.6.Wastewater Treatment -- Municipal Wastewater Treatment -- On-Site Wastewater Treatment -- 11.7.Water and You -- |
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Contents note continued: Municipal Water Use -- Water Efficiency and Conservation -- 11.8.Water Conservation Policy and Law -- Water Use in the United States -- Water Quality in the United States -- International Water Law -- Agents Of Change: Water Conservation Competition -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Farming for the Future: Contrasting Approaches -- 12.1.Origins and History of Agriculture -- Why Did Agriculture Begin? -- How Did Agriculture Begin? -- And Then What? Agricultural History -- 12.2.Agroecosystems -- Energetics of Agroecosystems -- Cycling of Nitrogen and Phosphorus -- Dynamic Homeostasis -- 12.3.The Growth of Crop Plants -- Plant Growth and Reproduction -- What Grows Where and Why? -- The Role of Other Organisms -- 12.4.Managing Soil Resources -- Soil Origins and Structure -- Soil Fertility -- Soil Conservation -- 12.5.Water and Agriculture -- Water in Soil -- Irrigation -- Conserving Water in Agroecosystems -- 12.6.Livestock in Agroecosystems -- |
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Contents note continued: Trophic Level Efficiency -- Environmental Impacts -- 12.7.Managing Genetic Resources -- Genetic Diversity and the Stability of Agroecosystems -- Genetically Modified Organisms -- 12.8.Managing Competitors and Pests -- Chemical Pest Control -- Biological Pest Control -- Agroecosystem Management of Pests -- 12.9.The Ecology of Eating -- The Food Footprint -- Ecological Eating -- Seeing Solutions: Urban Farming -- 12.10.Food for the Future -- Sustainable Agriculture -- Feeding a Hungry World -- Agents Of Change: STOGROW: A Student-Run Campus Farm at St. Olaf College -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Tragedy of Forest Loss in Haiti -- 13.1.The Values of Forests -- Ecosystem Services -- Wood Products -- Non-Wood Forest Products -- 13.2.Forest Growth -- The Life History of a Tree -- The Life History of a Forest Stand -- The Life History of a Forested Landscape -- Focus On Science: CO2 and the Growth of Forest Stands -- 13.3.Deforestation -- |
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Contents note continued: Historical Change -- Causes of Deforestation -- How Can Deforestation Be Halted? -- Seeing Solutions: Restoring Forests and Community Well-Being in Haiti -- 13.4.Forest Degradation -- Forest Health in Peril -- 13.5.Defining Sustainable Forest Management -- Allocation -- Harvest -- Rationing -- Investment -- Criteria for Sustainable Forest Management -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The History of an Oil Field -- 14.1.Energy Production -- Energy Sources -- The Economics of Energy Resources -- 14.2.Coal -- Sources and Production -- Coal and the Environment -- 14.3.Oil and Natural Gas -- Sources -- Oil Production -- Natural Gas Production -- Oil, Natural Gas, and the Environment -- Focus On Science: Let It Snow -- 14.4.Nuclear Power -- Sources and Production -- Nuclear Power and the Environment -- 14.5.Electric Power-Generation, Distribution, and Use -- Generating Electricity -- Batteries and Fuel Cells -- Transmission of Electricity -- |
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Contents note continued: Seeing Solutions: A Smart Grid -- Environmental Impacts -- Agents Of Change: An Advocate for Appalachia -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Human Energy Consumption Through the Ages -- 15.1.Renewable Energy Overview -- The Transition to Renewable Energy -- Challenges -- 15.2.Solar Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- 15.3.Biomass Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.4.Wind Power -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.5.Hydropower -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.6.Ocean Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- 15.7.Geothermal Energy -- Sources and Supplies -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Geothermal Energy Use -- 15.8.Energy Conservation and Efficiency -- Defining Energy Conservation -- More Efficient Lighting and Appliances -- |
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Contents note continued: Automobile Efficiency -- Focus On Science: Are Electric Vehicles Really Better? -- 15.9.Sustainable Energy Policy -- Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Energy -- Policy Options -- Seeing Solutions: Leapfrogging to Renewables -- Agents Of Change: Biodiesel Project at Loyola University Chicago -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Portland, Oregon: Sustainable by Choice -- 16.1.Urbanization -- Ancient Cities -- Development of Modern Cities -- Current Trends -- 16.2.Urban Ecosystems -- Defining Urban Ecosystems -- Urban Climate -- Urban Hydrology -- 16.3.Urban Land Use -- Urban Population Distribution -- Causes of Urban Sprawl -- Consequences of Sprawl -- Urban Slums: Informal Settlements -- 16.4.Urban Planning -- Urban Plans and Planning -- Bounding Growth -- Sustainable Urban Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Atlanta's Beltline: Abandoned Railway to Transformative Park Network -- 16.5.The Built Environment: Sustainable Building -- Green Building -- |
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Contents note continued: Rating Systems for Sustainable Building -- Seeing Solutions: Greening the Empire State Building -- 16.6.Urban Transportation -- The Challenges of Urban Transportation -- Balancing Transportation Options -- Urban Transportation Economics -- 16.7.Urban Biodiversity -- Urban Wildlife -- Green Infrastructure -- City Parks, Greenways, and Waterways -- Focus On Science: Green Walls and Bird Abundance -- 16.8.The City as a Sustainability Strategy -- Efficient Capture and Use of Energy and Matter -- Ecosystem Characteristics -- Agents Of Change: Get them to the Green -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Cost of a Can -- 17.1.Solid Waste -- Municipal Solid Waste -- Sanitary Landfills -- Waste to Energy -- Industrial Solid Waste -- 17.2.Hazardous, Biomedical, Electronic, and Radioactive Waste -- Hazardous Waste -- Biomedical Waste -- Electronic Waste -- Radioactive Waste -- 17.3.Sustainable Waste Management -- Diminishing the Waste Stream -- |
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Contents note continued: Challenges to Municipal Recycling -- Focus On Science: To Recycle or Not to Recycle -- 17.4.Managing Product Life Cycles -- Life-Cycle Assessment -- Reimagining Product Life Cycles -- 17.5.Waste Management Policy and Law -- Municipal Solid Waste -- Hazardous, Biomedical, Electronic, and Radioactive Waste -- Seeing Solutions: Managing E-Waste -- Agents Of Change: Trash 2 Treasure: Post-Landfill Action Network -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Out of Africa -- 18.1.Introduction to Public Health -- Measuring Public Health -- Hazards and Risk -- Risk Perception and Reality -- 18.2.Physical Hazards in the Environment -- Geologic Hazards -- Weather Hazards -- Fire in the Environment -- 18.3.Chemical Hazards in the Environment -- What Is a Toxin? -- Human Vulnerability to Toxins -- Toxin Transport and Fate -- Kinds of Toxins -- Toxin Testing and Regulation -- Focus On Science: Citizen Science and the Flint Water Crisis -- |
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Contents note continued: 18.4.Biological Hazards in the Environment -- Infectious Disease and the Environment -- Respiratory Disease -- Diarrheal Diseases -- Blood-Borne Diseases -- Evolutionary Change and the War against Pathogens -- Seeing Solutions: Ebola and the World Health Organization -- 18.5.Environmental Change and Human Health -- Human Population Size -- Air and Water Pollution -- Landscape Change -- Climate Change -- Agents Of Change: The Making of Swine Country: A Film about Public Health and Environmental Justice -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- 19.1.Hope for the Environment -- Warmer Climates -- Scarcer Resources -- Less Biodiversity -- More People and Bigger Footprints -- 19.2.And You? -- Continue to Learn and Improve Your Understanding -- Reduce Your Shoe Size -- Give What You Can -- Think and Act for the Future -- 19.3.Be an Agent of Change -- Articulate a Vision Based on Your Values and Be Willing to Act on It -- Cultivate Diversity -- Focus on Outcomes -- |
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Contents note continued: Be Humble and Adaptable -- Be Confident, Committed, and Hopeful -- Agents Of Change: Closing the Loop with Plastics -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Appendix A: Graph Appendix -- Appendix B: Metric System |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Environmentalism
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Environmental policy
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Environmental protection
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Author |
Leege, Lissa, author
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St. Juliana, Justin, author
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LC no. |
2017042314 |
ISBN |
9780134646053 |
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0134646053 |
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9780134818764 |
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0134818768 |
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9780134784441 |
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0134784448 |