(eBook PDF) Environmental Change and Challenge 5th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 0199015147
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199015146
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This fascinating introduction to environmental studies explores contemporary issues such as drought, flooding, loss of biodiversity, ecosystem toxicity, and crop failure, while also offering the tools to understand the impacts, alternatives, and possible solutions. This fully updated and revised edition reflects the most current data, profiles the most pressing environmental hotspots both at home and abroad, and emphasizes that being informed is the key to meeting environmental challenges and affecting positive change.
table of contents:
CHAPTER ONE Environment, Resources, and Society
CHAPTER TWO Energy Flows and Ecosystems
CHAPTER THREE Ecosystems Are Dynamic
CHAPTER FOUR Ecosystems and Matter Cycling
CHAPTER FIVE Planning and Management Perspectives
CHAPTER SEVEN Climate Change
CHAPTER EIGHT Oceans and Fisheries
CHAPTER NINE Forests
CHAPTER TEN Agriculture
CHAPTER ELEVEN Water
CHAPTER TWELVE Minerals and Energy
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Urban Environmental Management
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Endangered Species and Protected Areas
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Mal ing It Happen