Last edition Elsevier Environment: The Science behind the Stories continues to revolutionize the environmental science course with integrated central case studies and real-life stories that provide students with a concrete and engaging framework for understanding and applying the scientific process to environmental concerns. The newly revised Fifth Edition offers a highly effective integration between text and media and an emphasis on scientific literacy and data analysis skills to encourage students to critically evaluate information about environmental issues.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781292063317
Imprint: Pearson
Language: English
Authors: Jay H. Withgott
Pub Date: 01/2015
Pages: 784
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 1,800.000 grams
Size: 229 x 274 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • Integrated Central Case Studies begin and are woven throughout each chapter, highlighting the real people, real places, and real data behind environmental issues. The Central Case Studies draw students in, and provide a contextual framework to make science memorable and engaging.
- • Science behind the Story boxes highlight how scientists develop hypotheses, test predictions, and analyze and interpret data. These fascinating profiles of current research help students understand “how we know what we know” about environmental issues.
- • Weighing the Issues questions encourage students to develop critical-thinking skills, grapple with ethical questions, and apply what they have learned as they go through each chapter.
- • Calculating Ecological Footprint activities at the end of every chapter allow students to quantify the environmental impacts of their own actions, and then scale these impacts up to the societal level.
- • Campus Sustainability coverage in the final chapter shows how students are helping to forge sustainable solutions on campuses across North America.
- • Video Field Trips give students fascinating behind-the-scenes tours of real environmental issues and the strategies and solutions employed to cope with them. These popular short videos are included on the Instructor Resource DVD for classroom presentations and within MasteringEnvironmentalScience for automatically graded student assignments. These exclusive videos explore: • Coal-Fired Power Plant • Waste Water Treatment Facility • Sustainable Agriculture • Landfill and Recycling Center • Water Utility Facility • Wind Power • Campus Sustainability • Invasive Species: Lionfish • Solar Energy • Electronic Waste • Carbon Neutrality on Campus • Prescribed Fires
- Jay H. Withgott Is a science and environmental writer with a background in scientific research and teaching. He holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Arizona. As a researcher, he has published scientific papers on topics in ecology, evolution, animal behavior, and conservation biology in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Evolution, and Animal Behavior. He has taught university-level laboratory courses in ecology, ornithology, vertebrate diversity, anatomy, and general biology.
- I. FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
- 1. Science and Sustainability: An Introduction to Environmental Science
- 2. Earth’s Physical Systems: Matter, Energy, and Geology
- 3. Evolution, Biodiversity, and Population Ecology
- 4. Species Interactions and Community Ecology
- 5. Environmental Systems and Ecosystem Ecology
- 6. Ethics, Economics, and Sustainable Development
- 7. Environmental Policy: Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- II. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
- 8. Human Population
- 9. Soil and Agriculture
- 10. Agriculture, Biotechnology, and the Future of Food
- 11. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- 12. Forests, Forest Management, and Protected Areas
- 13. The Urban Environment: Creating Sustainable Cities
- 14. Environmental Health and Toxicology
- 15. Freshwater Systems and Resources
- 16. Marine and Coastal Systems and Resources
- 17. Atmospheric Science, Air Quality, and Pollution Control
- 18. Global Climate Change
- 19. Fossil Fuels, Their Impacts, and Energy Conservation
- 20. Conventional Energy Alternatives
- 21. New Renewable Energy Alternatives
- 22. Managing Our Waste
- 23. Minerals and Mining
- 24. Sustainable Solutions
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