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Natural Resource Conservation : Management for a Sustainable Future

ISBN: 9780131458321 | 0131458329
Edition: 9th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
For introductory-level, undergraduate courses in natural resource conservation, natural resource management, environmental science, and environmental conservation.This comprehensive text provides the ecological principles, policies, and practices to manage a sustainable future. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives.
Prefaceviii
Acknowledgmentsxi
Biographiesxii
Natural Resource Conservation and Management: Past, Present, and Future
1(23)
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A Crisis on Planet Earth?
1(2)
Differing Viewpoints: Are We on a Sustainable Course?
3(3)
A Brief History of the Resource Conservation, Environmental, and Sustainability Movements
6(5)
Case Study 1.1 The Earth Summit and Beyond
10(1)
Classification of Natural Resources
11(1)
Approaches to Natural Resource Management
12(3)
Changing Realities: The Nemesis Effect
15(1)
New Tools for Resource Management: Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
16(3)
Risk and Risk Assessment
19(1)
The Environment and You: The Importance of Citizen Action
20(4)
Economics, Ethics, and Critical Thinking: Tools for Creating a Sustainable Future
24(23)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 2.1 Ethics Versus Economics?
25(1)
Understanding Economics
26(4)
Creating a Sustainable Economy
30(6)
Toward Sustainable Ethics
36(11)
Case Study 2.1 Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Justice
39(8)
Lessons From Ecology
47(37)
Levels of Organization
47(2)
Scientific Principles Relevant to Ecology
49(3)
The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems
52(12)
Principles of Ecology
64(9)
The Biomes
73(6)
Case Study 3.1 Life Returns to Mount St. Helens: A Dramatic Example of Succession
74(5)
Ecology and Sustainability
79(5)
The Human Population Challenge
84(19)
Understanding Populations and Population Growth
85(6)
The Impact of Overpopulation
91(2)
Population Growth in the More Developed Nations: A Closer Look
93(1)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 4.1 Is Reproduction a Personal Right?
94(1)
Population Growth in the Less Developed Nations: A Closer Look
94(1)
Controlling the Growth of the World's Population
95(3)
Human Population and the Earth's Carrying Capacity
98(5)
Case Study 4.1 China: One of Family Planning's Success Stories?
99(4)
World Hunger: Solving the Problem Sustainably
103(17)
World Hunger: Dimensions of the Problem
103(3)
Increasing Food Supplies Sustainably: An Overview
106(10)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 5.1 Feeding People or Controlling Population Growth?
107(9)
Poverty, Conflict, and Free Trade
116(4)
The Nature of Soils
120(18)
Value of Soil
120(1)
Characteristics of Soil
120(7)
Soil Formation
127(3)
The Soil Profile
130(1)
Soil Classification
131(7)
Soil Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture
138(27)
The Nature of Soil Erosion
138(2)
The Dust Bowl
140(2)
The Shelterbelt Program
142(1)
Soil Erosion Today
143(2)
Factors Affecting the Rate of Soil Erosion by Water
145(1)
Controlling Soil Erosion by Water
146(7)
Case Study 7.1 A 100-Year Study of the Effects of Cropping on Soil Erosion
147(4)
A Closer Look 7.1 The Universal Soil Loss Equation
151(2)
Alternative Agriculture
153(3)
Sustainable Agriculture
156(9)
GIS and Remote Sensing GIS, Remote Sensing, and Precision Farming
161(4)
Integrated Pest Management
165(24)
Where Do Pests Come From?
165(2)
Types of Chemical Pesticides: A Historical Perspective
167(1)
How Effective Are Pesticides?
168(4)
How Hazardous Are Pesticides?
172(5)
Are Pesticides Adequately Regulated?
177(1)
Sustainable Pest Control
178(11)
GIS and Remote Sensing Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Detect Pest Damage in Forests
179(10)
Aquatic Environments
189(33)
Wetlands
189(8)
The Lake Ecosystem
197(4)
The Stream Ecosystem
201(2)
The Coastal Environment
203(11)
The Ocean
214(8)
Managing Water Resources Sustainably
222(29)
The Water Cycle
223(3)
Flooding: Problems and Solutions
226(11)
Case Study 10.1 The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993
231(1)
GIS and Remote Sensing GIS Aids Snow Monitoring and Modeling at the National Weather Service
232(5)
Water Shortages: Issues and Solutions
237(5)
Irrigation: Issues and Solutions
242(9)
Water Pollution
251(47)
Types of Water Pollution
251(2)
Major Pollutants, Prevention, and Control
253(21)
Case Study 11.1 The Zebra Mussel: A Water Contaminant from Europe
265(9)
Sewage Treatment and Disposal
274(10)
Case Study 11.2 Invisible Threat: Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes
277(7)
Legislating Water Pollution Control
284(2)
Pollution of Oceans
286(7)
A World View of Water Pollution
293(5)
Fisheries Conservation
298(42)
Freshwater Fisheries
299(1)
Environmental Limitations to the Reproductive Potential of Freshwater Fish
300(11)
Case Study 12.1 The Sea Lamprey---Scourge of the Great Lakes
308(3)
Sustainable Freshwater Fisheries Management
311(13)
Case Study 12.2 Rebuilding Fish and Wildlife Populations on the Columbia River Drainage System
312(4)
A Closer Look 12.1 Salmon Fever in the Great Lakes
316(8)
Marine Fisheries
324(2)
Problems Facing Marine Fisheries
326(4)
Sustainable Marine Fisheries Management
330(3)
Aquaculture
333(7)
Rangeland Management
340(25)
Ecology of Rangelands
340(8)
A Closer Look 13.1 Prairie Restoration and the National Grasslands Story
342(5)
A Closer Look 13.2 Causes of Desertification
347(1)
Brief History of Range Use in the United States
348(2)
Rangeland Resources and Condition
350(5)
A Closer Look 13.3 Range Wars: Ranchers Versus Environmentalists
354(1)
Range Management
355(10)
Case Study 13.1 Methods of Coyote Control
361(4)
Forest Management
365(35)
Forest Ownership
365(1)
The U.S. Forest Service
366(3)
Harvesting Trees
369(6)
A Closer Look 14.1 The Monoculture Controversy
371(4)
Reforestation
375(2)
A Closer Look 14.2 Genetic Engineering: The Key to Tomorrow's Superforests?
377(1)
Control of Forest Pests
377(3)
Fire Management
380(4)
A Closer Look 14.3 Controlling Insect Outbreaks with Heterotypes
381(3)
Meeting Future Timber Demands Sustainably
384(1)
Preserving Wilderness
385(2)
A Closer Look 14.4 Forest Conservation by Efficient Utilization
386(1)
Protecting Natural Resources: National Parks
387(5)
A Closer Look 14.5 The Wilderness Controversy
388(4)
Reversing Tropical Deforestation
392(8)
Plant and Animal Extinction
400(20)
Extinction: Eroding the Earth's Biological Diversity
401(1)
Causes of Extinction
402(10)
Case Study 15.1 Dam Versus Darter: A Classic Confrontation
403(2)
Case Study 15.2 The Passenger Pigeon: The Many Causes of Extinction
405(4)
GIS and Remote Sensing Mapping Noxious Weeds with GIS
409(2)
Ethics in Resource management 15.1 Do Other Species Have a Right to Exist?
411(1)
Methods of Preventing Extinction
412(3)
The Endangered Species Act
415(5)
Wildlife Management
420(29)
Wildlife
420(3)
Types of Animal Movements
423(1)
Mortality Factors
424(6)
Wildlife Management
430(7)
A Closer Look 16.1 The Hunting Controversy
431(6)
Regulating Populations
437(8)
Case Study 16.1 The Everglades: Water Troubles in a Wildlife Paradise
441(4)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 16.1 To Kill or Not to Kill?
445(1)
Nongame Wildlife
445(4)
Sustainable Waste Management
449(24)
Municipal Waste: Tapping a Wasted Resource
449(2)
Managing Our Municipal Solid Wastes Sustainably
451(7)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 17.1 Do We Have an Obligation to Future Generations?
452(6)
Waste Disposal: The Final Option
458(2)
Hazardous Wastes
460(13)
Case Study 17.1 The Chemical Time Bomb at Love Canal
461(7)
Case Study 17.2 Exporting Toxic Troubles
468(5)
Air Pollution
473(29)
Pollution of the Atmosphere
473(2)
Major Atmospheric Pollutants
475(5)
A Closer Look 18.1 The Clean Air Act
477(3)
Factors Affecting Air Pollution Concentrations
480(3)
Effects of Air Pollution on Local Climate
483(1)
Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health
483(4)
Case Study 18.1 Asbestos: The Dangers of a Useful Product
486(1)
Air Pollution Abatement and Control
487(8)
Case Study 18.2 Getting Charged Up Over Electric Cars
494(1)
Indoor Air Pollution
495(7)
Case Study 18.3 Tobacco Smoke: The Deadliest Air Pollutant
496(6)
Air Pollution: Global Problems
502(27)
Global Climate Change
503(6)
Acid Deposition
509(10)
GIS and Remote Sensing GIS Aids Emergency Response and Survival Strategies in Bangladesh
510(9)
Depletion of Stratospheric Ozone
519(10)
Ethics in Resource Conservation 19.1 Debate Over Global Warming and Ozone Depletion: Do We Have an Obligation to Other Countries?
525(4)
Minerals, Mining, and a Sustainable Society
529(14)
Supply and Demand
529(4)
Can We Expand Our Mineral Supplies?
533(2)
Mineral Conservation Strategies
535(2)
Environmental Impacts of Mineral Production
537(6)
Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Issues and Options
543(32)
Global Energy Sources: An Overview
544(1)
A Closer Look at Nonrenewable Energy Resources
545(10)
The Nuclear Energy Option: Is It Sustainable?
555(14)
Fusion Reactors
569(1)
America's Energy Future
570(5)
Creating a Sustainable System of Energy: Efficiency and Renewable Energy
575(23)
Conservation
575(5)
Renewable Energy Strategies
580(15)
Summary
595(3)
Afterword598(2)
Glossary600(17)
Illustration Acknowledgments617(2)
Index619

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