Environmental Science For Dummies

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Environmental Science For Dummies

Spooner, Alecia M.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

06/2023

400

Mole

Inglês

9781394161393

15 a 20 dias

666

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Introduction 1

Part 1: Demystifying Science and the Environment 5

Chapter 1: Investigating the Environment 7

Chapter 2: Thinking Scientifically: The Scientific Method and Other Ways of Knowing 17

Chapter 3: What's the Matter? Living and Nonliving Material 31

Chapter 4: Making Things Happen: Energy 49

Chapter 5: Studying the Environment and Your Place in It 59

Part 2: Living on Earth's Surface: Ecosystems, Biomes, and Climate 71

Chapter 6: Exploring Ecosystems 73

Chapter 7: Biogeography: How Earth's Climate Shapes Global Ecosystem Patterns 91

Chapter 8: Playing Well with Others: Population Biology 109

Chapter 9: Heating Things Up: Living in a Changing Climate 133

Part 3: Getting Your Needs Met: Earth's Natural Resources 157

Chapter 10: Water, Water Everywhere: Freshwater Resources 159

Chapter 11: This Land Belongs to You and Me: Land as a Resource 171

Chapter 12: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Biodiversity 181

Chapter 13: Dishing It Up: Food Resources 197

Chapter 14: Hitting the Hard Stuff: Geologic Resources and Hazards 219

Chapter 15: Shifting Gears: Alternative Energy 237

Part 4: Giving a Hoot: Pollution and Environmental Quality 253

Chapter 16: Breathing Room: Addressing Man-Made Air Pollution 255

Chapter 17: Spilling Over: Water Pollution 269

Chapter 18: What's Your Poison? Toxins and Infectious Disease 281

Chapter 19: Wading Through the Waste Stream: Solid and Hazardous Waste 297

Part 5: Expanding the Definition of Sustainability 311

Chapter 20: Reevaluating the Value of the Environment 313

Chapter 21: Decolonizing Environmental Science 327

Part 6: The Part of Tens 343

Chapter 22: Ten International Agreements on Planetary Stewardship 345

Chapter 23: Ten Real-Life Examples of the Tragedy of the Commons 351

Index 357
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