商品簡介
●A focus on Systems and Sustainability highlight how the various aspects of the environment interact, and how changes in one part of the environment might affect other processes, places and organisms. Understanding this is essential to managing existing problems, avoiding future problems and improving the world we live in.
●Well-developed extensive pedagogy offers a clear way for students to move from general concepts to applications of key concepts.
●In Your Own Backyard feature provides a critical thinking question at the beginning of each chapter and connects the broad themes of the text to local issues and resources students can investigate.
●Critical Thinking and Review Questions, many new to this edition, encourage critical thinking and highlight important concepts and applications. At least one question in each chapter provides a systems perspective; another question relates climate and energy to the chapter. Visual questions have been added to each chapter.
作者簡介
David M. Hassenzahl - California State University at Chico
Mary Catherine Hager
Nancy Y. Gift - Berea College
Linda R. Berg - former affiliations: University of Maryland, College Park St. Petersburg College
Peter H. Raven - Missouri Botanical Garden
序
Environment, Tenth Edition helps students understand the connection between the core concepts of the Environmental Science and their daily lives. The 10th edition enhanced e-text features a rich, interactive collection of current case studies and in-text examples, which provides students with the tools to understand, apply, and think critically about environmental science. It also provides instructors with powerful tools to assess individual students progresses well as the class as a whole.
目次
Chapter 1- Introducing Environmental Science and Sustainability
Chapter 2- Environmental Laws, Economic, and Ethics
Chapter 3- Ecosystems and Energy
Chapter 4- Ecosystems and the Physical Environment
Chapter 5- Ecosystems and Living Organisms
Chapter 6- Major Ecosystems of the World
Chapter 7- Human Health and Environmental Toxicology
Chapter 8- The Human Population
Chapter 9- The Urban Environment
Chapter 10- Energy Consumption
Chapter 11- Fossil Fuels
Chapter 12- Renewable Energy and Nuclear Power
Chapter 13- Water: A Limited Resource
Chapter 14- Soil Resources
Chapter 15- Mineral Resources
Chapter 16- Biological Resources
Chapter 17- Land Resources
Chapter 18- Food Resources
Chapter 19- Air Pollution
Chapter 20- Global Climate Change
Chapter 21- Water Pollution
Chapter 22- Pest Management
Chapter 23- Solid and Hazardous Wastes
Chapter 24- Tomorrow’s Word
