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Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future

ISBN: 9780130333988 | 0130333980
Edition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
Written from a sustainable perspective, this readable, yet rigorous, book provides comprehensive coverage of a variety of local, regional, national, and global resource and environmental issues from population growth to wetlands to agriculture to global air pollution. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives. Overall increased emphasis on international and global issues (includes many examples from Canada). New information on Geograph... MORE
Prefacex
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Biographiesxiv
Past, Present, and Future: Natural Resource Conservation and Management
1(21)
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Foundations of a Sustainable Future: Economics and Ethics
22(23)
Lessons from Ecology
45(33)
The Human Population Challenge
78(19)
World Hunger: Solving the Problem Sustainably
97(18)
The Nature of Soils
115(19)
Soil Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture
134(27)
Pesticides: Protecting Our Crops, Our Health, and Our Environment
161(25)
Aquatic Environments
186(33)
Managing Water Resources Sustainability
219(30)
Water Pollution
249(50)
Fisheries Conservation
299(42)
Rangeland Management
341(25)
Forest Management
366(34)
Plant and Animal Extinction
400(26)
Wildlife Management
426(28)
Sustainable Waste Management
454(22)
Air Pollution
476(30)
Air Pollution: Global Problems
506(25)
Minerals, Mining, and a Sustainable Society
531(13)
Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Issues and Options
544(32)
Creating a Sustainable System of Energy: Efficiency and Renewable Energy
576(23)
Afterword599(2)
Glossary601(17)
Illustration Acknowledgments618
Index

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