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ISBN 10: 0495560162

ISBN 13: 9780495560166

Author: G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman

Miller’s science-based coverage helps clarify complex environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss, energy options and policies, and others. A continuing emphasis on integration of economics and the environment throughout. Miller emphasizes the increased use of emissions trading, environmental accounting, full-cost pricing, selling services instead of things, and evolving eras of environmental management in a growing number of businesses. Many new topics including transfer of energy by convection, conduction, and radiation (Figure 3-9); life cycle of frogs (Figure 7-6); human ecological footprints on the earth¡ s surface (Figure 8-12) and on North America (Figure 17-8); four principles of sustainability (Figures 8-13 and 8-12); possible beneficial effects of global warming in some areas (Figure 13-13); sequestration of carbon dioxide to slow global warming (Figure 13-16); industrial ecosystem in Denmark (Figure 15-6); use of phytoremediation (Figure 15-9) and a plasma torch (Figure 15-10) to treat hazardous wastes; terrorism and the release toxic chemicals from industrial plants; mercury contamination in the environment (Figures 15-19 and 15-20); ten most endangered U.S. songbirds (Figure 18-7); examples of nonnative species found in the United States (Figure 18-8); .brief history of oil; terrorist treats to nuclear wastes stored at nuclear power plants; and terrorist threats from dirty radioactive bombs.

Environmental Science Available Titles CourseMate 13th Table of contents:

 

Humans and Sustainability: An Overview

 

Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Core Case Study: It’s All About Sustainability

Key Questions and Concepts

What Is an Environmentally Sustainable Society?

How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?

Case Study: China’s New Affluent Consumers

What Is Pollution and What Can We Do About It?

Why Do We Have Environmental Problems?

How Can We Live More Sustainably? Three Big Ideas

Revisiting Sustainability

Ecology and Sustainability

 

Science, Matter, and Energy

Core Case Study: How Do Scientists Learn About Nature? A Story About a Forest

Key Questions and Concepts

What Do Scientists Do?

Science Focus: Controversy Over Climate Change

What Is Matter and How Do Physical and Chemical Changes Affect It?

What Is Energy and How Do Physical and Chemical Changes Affect It?

Revisiting The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Sustainability

Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing

What Keeps Us and Other Organisms Alive?

What Are the Major Components of an Ecosystem?

Science Focus: Many of the World’s Most Important Organisms Are Invisible to Us

What Happens to Energy in an Ecosystem?

What Happens to Matter in an Ecosystem?

Science Focus: Water’s Unique Properties

How Do Scientists Study Ecosystems?

Revisiting Tropical Rain Forests and Sustainability

Biodiversity and Evolution

 

Core Case Study: Why Are Amphibians Vanishing? Unraveling a Mystery

Key Questions and Concepts

What Is Biodiversity and Why Is It Important?

Science Focus: Have You Thanked the Insects Today?

How Does the Earth’s Life Change Over Time?

Science Focus: How Did Humans Become Such a Powerful Species?

How Do Geological Processes and Climate Change Affect Evolution?

Science Focus: Earth Is Just Right for Life to Thrive

How Do Speciation, Extinction, and Human Activities Affect Biodiversity?

Science Focus: We Have Developed Two Ways to Change the Genetic Traits of Populations

What Is Species Diversity and Why Is It Important?

What Roles Do Species Play in an Ecosystem?

Case Study: Cockroaches—Nature’s Ultimate Survivors

Science Focus: Why Should We Care About the American Alligator?

Case Study: Why Should We Protect Sharks?

Revisiting Amphibians and Sustainability

Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control

 

Core Case Study: The Southern Sea Otter: A Species in Recovery

Key Questions and Concepts

How Do Species Interact?

Science Focus: Threats to Kelp Forests from Predators and Climate Change

What Limits the Growth of Populations?

Science Focus: Why Do California’s Sea Otters Face an Uncertain Future?

How Do Communities and Ecosystems Respond to Changing Environmental Conditions?

Revisiting Southern Sea Otters and Sustainability

The Human Population and Urbanization

 

Core Case Study: Are There Too Many of Us?

Key Questions and Concepts

How Many People Can the Earth Support?

What Factors Influence the Size of the Human Population?

Case Study: The U.S. Population Is Growing Rapidly

Case Study: The United States—A Nation of Immigrants

How Does a Population’s Age Structure Affect Its Growth or Decline?

How Can We Slow Human Population Growth?

Case Study: Slowing Population Growth in China—The One-Child Policy

Case Study: Slowing Population Growth in India

What Are the Major Urban Resource and Environmental Problems?

Case Study: Urbanization in the United States

Case Study: Mexico City

How Does Transportation Affect Urban Environmental Impacts?

How Can Cities Become More Sustainable and Livable?

Case Study: The Ecocity Concept in Curitiba, Brazil

Revisiting Population Growth, Urbanization, and Sustainability

Climate and Biodiversity

 

Core Case Study: Different Climates Support Different Life Forms

Key Questions and Concepts

What Factors Influence Climate?

How Does Climate Affect the Nature and Location of Biomes?

Science Focus: Staying Alive in the Desert

How Have We Affected the World’s Terrestrial Ecosystems?

What Are the Major Types of Aquatic Systems?

Why Are the World’s Oceans Important and How Have We Affected Them?

Case Study: Coral Reefs

What Are the Major Types of Freshwater Systems and How Have We Affected Them?

Revisiting Climate, Biodiversity, and Sustainability

Sustaining Biodiversity

 

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

 

Core Case Study: Polar Bears and Projected Climate Change

Key Questions and Concepts

What Role Do Humans Play in the Premature Extinction of Species?

Science Focus: Estimating Extinction Rates

Case Study: The Passenger Pigeon—Gone Forever

Why Should We Care About Preventing Species Extinction?

How Do Humans Accelerate Species Extinction?

Case Study: A Disturbing Message from the Birds

Case Study: The Kudzu Vine

Case Study: Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?

How Can We Protect Wild Species from Premature Extinction?

Science Focus: Accomplishments of the Endangered Species Act

Case Study: Protecting Whales: A Success Story—So Far

Case Study: Trying to Save the California Condor

Revisiting Polar Bears and Sustainability

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach

 

Core Case Study: Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement

Key Questions and Concepts

What Are the Major Threats to Forest Ecosystems?

Science Focus: Putting a Price Tag on Nature’s Ecological Services

Case Study: Many Cleared Forests in the United States Have Grown Back

How Should We Manage and Sustain Forests?

Science Focus: Certifying Sustainably Grown Timber

How Should We Manage and Sustain Grasslands?

How Should We Manage and Sustain Parks and Nature Reserves?

Case Study: Stresses on U.S. Public Parks

Science Focus: Reintroducing the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone National Park

Case Study: Costa Rica—A Global Conservation Leader

Case Study: Controversy over Wilderness Protection in the United States

How Can We Help Sustain Terrestrial Biodiversity?

Science Focus: Ecological Restoration of a Tropical Dry Forest in Costa Rica

How Can We Help Sustain Aquatic Biodiversity?

Case Study: Industrial Fish Harvesting Methods

Revisiting Wangari Maathai and Sustainability

Sustaining Resources and Environmental Quality

 

Food, Soil, and Pest Management

 

Core Case Study: Is Organic Agriculture the Answer?

Key Questions and Concepts

What Is Food Security and Why Is It Difficult to Attain?

How Is Food Produced?

Science Focus: Soil Is the Base of Life on Land

Case Study: Industrialized Food Production in the United States

Case Study: Brazil—The World’s Emerging Food Superpower

What Environmental Problems Arise from Food Production?

How Can We Protect Crops from Pests More Sustainably?

Individuals Matter: Rachel Carson

Science Focus: Ecological Surprises—The Law of Unintended Consequences

How Can We Improve Food Security?

How Can We Produce Food More Sustainably?

Case Study: Soil Erosion in the United States

Science Focus: The Land Institute and Perennial Polyculture

Revisiting Organic Agriculture and Sustainability

Water Resources and Water Pollution

 

Core Case Study: The Colorado River Story

Key Questions and Concepts

Will We Have Enough Usable Water?

Case Study: Freshwater Resources in the United States

How Can We Increase Water Supplies?

Science Focus: Are Deep Aquifers the Answer?

Case Study: California Transfers Massive Amounts of Water from Water-Rich Areas to Water-Poor Areas

Case Study: The Aral Sea Disaster—A Striking Example of Unintended Consequences

How Can We Use Water More Sustainably?

How Can We Reduce the Threat of Flooding?

Case Study: Living Dangerously on Floodplains in Bangladesh

How Can We Deal with Water Pollution?

Individuals Matter: The Man Who Planted Trees to Restore a Stream

Science Focus: Is Bottled Water the Answer?

Science Focus: Oxygen Depletion in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Case Study: Ocean Pollution from Oil

Case Study: U.S. Experience with Reducing Point-Source Water Pollution

Science Focus: Treating Sewage by Working with Nature

Revisiting The Colorado River and Sustainability

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