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Environmental Science : Working with the Earth
ISBN: 9780534420390 | 0534420397
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Pub. Date: 12/16/2002
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In this media edition of Miller's ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, a NEW Student CD-ROM, Interactive Concepts in Environmental Science has been added and is automatically packaged with every new copy of the text! This groundbreaking addition integrates nearly 100 engaging animations and interactions with chapter summaries, flashcards, and Web based quizzes. Organized by chapter, students will find links to relevant resources, narrated animations, interactive figures and prompts to review material and test themselves. This 9th Edition/Media Edition covers the latest developments in environmental science and environmental science education. Designed as a foundational text, Miller's flexible book is adaptable to almost any approach, and is the most widely embraced approach to environmental science in print today. With fair and balanced coverage and Internet tools integrated throughout, the book features an extensively developed art program, writing that communicates scientific information clearly and effectively, and the most current coverage of the subject. The book's flexible organization means that it can be adapted to fit almost any syllabus. Miller's more than thirty years of research and teaching expertise make this the definitive book on the subject.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: WORKING WITH THE EARTH, Ninth Edition Media Edition is a concise alternative to G. Tyler Miller's best-selling text LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, which redefines the environmental science course and sets the standard by which every other book for this course is judged.
| Part I | |
| HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY | |
| 1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes and Sustainability | |
| 2. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews | |
| Part II | |
| SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS | |
| 3. Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy | |
| 4. Ecosystems... MORE | |
| 5. Evolution and Biodiversity: Origin, Niches, and Adaptation | |
| 6. Climate, Terrestrial Biodiversity, and Aquatic Biodiversity | |
| 7. Community Ecology: Structure, Species Interactions, Succession, and Sustainability | |
| 8. Population Dynamics, Carrying Capacity, and Conservation Biology | |
| 9. Geology: Processes, Minerals, Hazards, and Soils | |
| 10. Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health | |
| Part III | |
| POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND SUSTAINABILITY | |
| 11. The Human Population: Growth and Distribution | |
| 12. Air and Air Pollution | |
| 13. Climate Change and Ozone Loss | |
| 14. Water Resources and Water Pollution | |
| 15. Solid and Hazardous Waste | |
| Part IV | |
| SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY | |
| 16. Food Resources | |
| 17. Sustaining Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity | |
| 18. Sustaining Wild Species | |
| Part V | |
| ENERGY RESOURCES | |
| 19. Nonrenewable Energy Resources | |
| 20. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
| Appendixes | |
| Glossary | |
| Index |
