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ISBN 13: 9781292020846
Imprint: Pearson
Language: English
Authors: Richard T. Wright
Pub Date: 08/2013
Pages: 664
Illus: Ilustrated
Weight: 1,420.000 grams
Size: h 216 X 281 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • Three unifying themes of science, sustainability, and stewardship help students conceptualize the task of forging a sustainable future.
- • Essays explore the three themes at appropriate points within chapters and provide a memorable perspective on the topic. Themes are recapped and discussed at the end of each chapter to help students connect the chapter topics to the themes. A final capstone chapter revisits these themes.
- • Timely coverage of topical concerns include the Fukishima earthquake as a major environmental disaster; hydrofracking in the northeastern United States, the “environmentalist’s paradox;” and the “Smart Grid.”
- • Major overhaul of the visual program makes the text more appealing and includes visuals that teach more clearly.
- • Reconceptualization of data-based figures helps improve student understanding of data, graphs and charts.
- • Learning outcomes have been added to the beginning of each chapter to introduce students to the key concepts they should understand at the conclusion of the chapter.
- • Content updates include:
- • Up-to-date policy information including a heavily revised section on politics and the environment (Chapter 2)
- • New perspectives on the cumulative impacts and unintended consequences of environmental problems (Chapter 1)
- Richard T. Wright (born October 15, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American criminologist. He is Board of Regent's Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University (GSU) in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at GSU from 2014–2018, and was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2009./ Dorothy Boorse
- I. FRAMEWORK FOR A SUSTATAINABLE FUTURE
- 1. Science and the Environment
- 2. Economics, Politics, and Public Policy
- II. ECOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
- 3. Basic Needs of Living Things
- 4. Populations and Communities
- 5. Ecosystems: Energy, Patterns, and Disturbance
- 6. Wild Species and Biodiversity
- 7. The Use and Restoration of Ecosystems
- III. THE HUMAN POPULATION AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
- 8. The Human Population
- 9. Population and Development
- 10. Water: Hydrologic Cycle and Human Use
- 11. Soil: Foundation for Land Ecosystems
- 12. The Production and Distribution of Food
- 13. Pests and Pest Control
- IV. HARNESSING ENERGY FOR HUMAN SOCIETY
- 14. Energy from Fossil Fuels
- 15. Renewable Energy
- 16. Nuclear Power
- V. POLLUTION AND PREVENTION
- 17. Environmental Hazards and Human Health
- 18. Global Climate Change
- 19. Atmospheric Pollution
- 20. Water Pollution and Its Prevention
- 21. Municipal Solid Waste: Disposal and Recovery
- 22. Hazardous Chemicals: Pollution and Prevention
- VI. STEWARDSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- 23. Sustainable Communities and Lifestyles
- Glossary
- Index
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