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• catalog abstract "Publisher Description: This full-color, introductory environmental science text is known for being concise, conceptual. The approach and reading level cover the basic concepts without overloading students with too much detail. With the central theme throughout the text being interrelatedness, the authors identify major issues and give appropriate examples that illustrate the complex interactions that are characteristic of all environmental issues.".
• catalog contributor b13103845.
• catalog contributor b13103846.
• catalog contributor b13103847.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description "Areas with minimal human impact-wilderness and remote areas -- Managing aquatic ecosystems: -- Environmental cost associated with utilizing marine ecosystems -- Global Perspective: History of the Bison: -- Environmental costs associated with utilizing freshwater ecosystems -- Aquaculture -- Environmental Close-Up: Farming, fish kills, and Pfiesteria piscicida -- Managing ecosystems for wildlife: -- Habitat analysis and management -- Population assessment and management -- Environmental Close-Up: Native American Fishing rights: -- Predator and competitor control -- Special issue with migratory waterfowl management -- Extinction and loss of biodiversity: -- Human-accelerated extinction -- Why worry about extinction? -- What is being done to prevent extinction and protect biodiversity? -- Environmental Close-Up: California condor -- Issues-Analysis: Fire as a forest management tool -- New For Chapter 12: -- Rewritten section on plantation forestry -- ".
• catalog description "Clarified definitions of marine, brackish, and freshwater -- Updated figure on forms of pollution -- New figure on change in forest areas -- New figure on trends in world fish production, including capture and aquaculture -- Rewritten section on aquaculture -- New material on the African Eurasian waterbird agreement -- New coverage on the role of keystone species and how their elimination alters ecosystems -- Updated references to President Bush's administrative policy -- Land-Use Planning: -- Need for planning -- Historical forces that shaped land use in North America: -- Importance of waterways -- Rural-to-urban shift -- Global Perspective: Urbanization in the developing world -- Migration from the central city to the suburbs -- Factors that contribute to sprawl: -- Lifestyle factors -- Economic factors -- Planning and policy factors -- Problems associated with unplanned urban growth: -- Transportation problems -- Air pollution -- Low energy efficiency -- ".
• catalog description "Control of motor vehicle emissions -- Control of particulate matter emissions -- Control of power plant emissions -- Clean Air Act -- Acid deposition -- Ozone depletion -- Environmental Close-Up: Secondhand smoke -- Global warming and climate change: -- Causes of global warming and climate change -- Potential consequences of global warming and climate change -- Addressing climate change -- Global Perspective: Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Gases -- Indoor air pollution -- Environmental Close-up: Radon -- Environmental Close-Up: Noise pollution -- Issues-Analysis: International air pollution -- New For Chapter 17: -- Fully reorganized chapter -- Text now includes material on the six criteria air pollutants -- Two new figures on photochemical smog -- New figure on thermal inversion -- New data on emissions and air quality -- New data on average global temperature -- New table on categories of air pollutants -- Sold Waste Management And Disposal: -- Introduction to waste management -- ".
• catalog description "Environmental Close-Up: Contaminants in the food chain of fish from the Great Lakes: -- Nutrient cycles in ecosystems: biogeochemical cycles -- Human impact on nutrient cycles -- Issues-Analysis: Reintroducing wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem -- New For Chapter 5: -- New section: Genes, populations, and species -- New herbicide resistance illustration -- New section on polyploidy -- Biogeochemical cycles now in nutrient cycles section -- New material on the operation of the carbon cycle in aquatic systems -- Kinds Of Ecosystems And Communities: -- Succession: -- Primary succession -- Secondary succession -- Modern concepts of succession and climax -- Biomass: major types of terrestrial climax communities: -- Effect of elevation on climate and vegetation -- Desert -- Grassland -- Environmental Close-Up: Grassland succession: -- Savanna -- Mediterranean shrublands -- Tropical dry forest -- Global Perspective: Tropical rainforests: special case? -- Tropical rainforest -- ".
• catalog description "Environmental Close-Up: Forest canopy studies: -- Temperate deciduous forest -- Taiga, Northern coniferous forest, or boreal forest -- Tundra -- Major aquatic ecosystems: -- Marine ecosystems -- Freshwater ecosystems -- Issue-Analysis: Protecting old-growth temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest -- New For Chapter 6: -- New content on ways that humans affect the process of succession -- New sections on Mediterranean shrublands (chaparral) and tropical dry forests -- Population Principles: -- Population characteristics: -- Natality and mortality -- Sex ratio and age distribution -- Population density and spatial distribution -- Summary of factors that influence population growth rates -- Population growth curve -- Carrying capacity -- Environmental Close-Up: Population growth of invading species -- Reproductive strategies and population fluctuations -- Human population growth: -- Available raw materials -- ".
• catalog description "Environmental Close-Up: Georgia-Pacific Corporation: Recycled urban wood-a case study in extended product responsibility: -- Extended product responsibility -- Extended product responsibility -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Concerns about the use of cost-benefit analysis -- Economics and sustainable development -- Environmental Close-Up: Green advertising claims: points to consider: -- External costs -- Common property resource problems -- Global Perspective: Pollution prevention pays!: -- Economic decision making and the biophysical world -- Environmental Close-Up: Placing a value on ecosystem services -- Global Perspective: Costa Rican forest yield tourists and medicines: -- Economics, environment, and developing nations -- Tragedy of the commons -- Lightening the load -- Issues-Analysis: Shrimp, turtles, and turtle excluder devices -- New For Chapter 3: -- Expanded section on public perceptions of environmental risks -- More information on extended product responsibility -- ".
• catalog description "Environmental Policy And Decision Making: -- New challenges for a new century -- Learning from the past -- Thinking about the future -- Defining the future -- Development of environmental policy in the United States: -- Environmental backlash-the wise use movement -- Changing nature of environmental policy -- Environmental Close-Up: Shaping US environmental policy as the new century begins -- Environmental policy and regulation -- Greening of geopolitics -- Environmental Close-Up: Changing the nature of environmental regulation-the Safe Drinking Water Act -- Terrorism and the environment -- International environmental policy -- Global Perspective: Earth summit on environment and development -- Global Perspective: Overview of an international organization-the International Whaling Commission -- Global Perspective: Eco-labels: -- Environmental policy and the European Union -- New International instruments -- It all come back to you -- New For Chapter 20:-- ".
• catalog description "Expanded coverage on global water issues -- More information on water treatment in the Salina Valley, California -- Expanded material on chemicals entering drinking water sources -- More discussion of the New York City water supply -- Additional text on water diversion and extractions -- Expanded material on wetlands -- New table on the population of the world's ten largest watersheds -- New table on international water disputes -- New coverage of the national research council's report on envisioning the agenda for water resource research in the 21st century -- Part 5: -- Pollution And Policy Environmental Policy: Pragmatic Or Polluted? -- Air Quality Issues: -- Atmosphere -- Categories of air pollutants: -- Carbon monoxide -- Volatile organic compounds -- Particulate matter -- Global Perspective: Air pollution in Mexico City: -- Sulfur dioxide -- Nitrogen dioxide -- Lead -- Ground-level ozone and photochemical smog -- Hazardous air pollutants -- Control of air pollution: -- ".
• catalog description "Expanded section on decommissioning policies for nuclear facilities -- More information about nuclear terrorism -- Part 4: -- Human Influences On Ecosystems -- Slaton, A Sea Of Controversy -- Human Impact On Resources And Ecosystems: -- Changing role of human impact -- Historical basis of pollution -- Renewable and nonrenewable resources -- Costs associated with resource utilization -- Mineral resources: -- Steps in mineral utilization -- Recycling of mineral materials -- Utilization and modification of terrestrial ecosystems: -- Impact of agriculture on natural ecosystems -- Managing forest ecosystems: -- Economic and energy cost of utilizing forest ecosystems -- Environmental costs of utilizing forest ecosystems -- Environmental implication of various harvesting methods -- Plantation forestry -- Environmental Close-Up: Northern Spotted Owl: -- Special concerns about tropical deforestation -- Managing rangelands ecosystems: -- Environmental costs of utilizing rangelands -- ".
• catalog description "Global Perspective: Chico Mendes and extractive reserves -- Environmental justice -- Individual environmental ethics -- Do we consume too much? -- Global Perspective: International trade in endangered species: -- Food -- Nature -- Oil -- Water -- Unknown -- Global Perspective: Gray whales of Neah Bay -- Global environmental ethics -- Issues-Analysis: Antarctic: resource or refuge? -- New For Chapter 2: New section: Do we consume too much? -- More information on the global reporting initiative -- New global perspective reading on the gray whales of Neah Bay -- Risk And Cost: Elements Of Decision Making: -- Measuring risk: -- Risk assessment -- Environmental Close-Up: What's in a number?: -- Risk management -- True and perceived risks -- Economics and the environment: -- Economic concepts -- Market-based instruments -- Global Perspective: Wombats and the Australian stock exchange -- ".
• catalog description "Global Perspectives: Managing elephant populations-harvest or birth control?: -- Available energy -- Waste disposal -- Interaction with other organisms -- Social factors influence human population -- Issue-Analysis: Wolves and moose on Isle Royale: -- Ultimate size limitation -- New For Chapter 7: -- Updated human population information -- More explanation on how the population growth rate is calculated -- New illustration on survivorship curves -- Revised material on age distribution -- Updated issues: analysis reading on wolves and moose on Isle Royale --".
• catalog description "Human Population Issues: -- Human population trends and implications -- Global Perspective: Thomas Malthus and his essay on population -- Factors that influence population growth: -- Biological factors -- Social factors -- Environmental Close-Up: Control of births: -- Political factors -- Population growth and standard of living -- Population and poverty: a vicious cycle? -- Hunger, food production, and environmental degradation -- Demographic transition concept -- Global Perspective: Urbanization of the world's population -- US population picture anticipated changes with continued population growth -- Global Perspective: North America-population comparisons -- Issues-Analysis: Impact of AIDS on populations -- New For Chapter 8: -- Updated information on human population issues -- New table on population characteristics of the 20 most populous countries -- Revised section on population growth and standard of living -- More information from the 2000 census -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. C-3) and index.".
• catalog description "Kinds of water use: -- Domestic use of water -- Agricultural use of water -- Industrial use of water -- In-stream use of water -- Global Perspective: Comparing water use and pollution in industrialized and developing countries -- Kinds and sources of water pollution -- Environmental Close-Up: Is it safe to drink the water?: -- Municipal water pollution -- Global Perspective: Cleanup of the Holy Ganges: -- Agricultural water pollution -- Industrial water pollution -- Thermal pollution -- Marine oil pollution -- Groundwater pollution -- Water-use planning issues: -- Water diversion -- Wastewater treatment -- Environmental Close-Up: Restoring the Everglades: -- Salinization -- Groundwater mining -- Preserving scenic water areas and wildlife habitats -- Global Perspective: Death of a sea -- Global perspective: Death zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- Issues-Analysis: California water plan -- New For Chapter 16: -- New Global perspective reading on the dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- ".
• catalog description "Loss of sense of community -- Death of the central city -- Higher infrastructure costs -- Loss of open space -- Loss of farmland -- Water pollution problems -- Floodplain problems -- Wetlands misuse -- Environmental Close-Up: Wetlands loss in Louisiana: -- Other land-use considerations -- Land-use planning principles -- Environmental Close-Up: Computer tools aid decision making-growing smarter to protect habitats -- Mechanisms for implementing land-use plans -- Establishing state or regional planning agencies -- Purchasing land or use rights -- Regulating use -- Special urban planning issues: -- Urban transportation planning -- Environmental Close-Up: Land-use planning and aesthetic pollution: -- Urban recreation planning -- Redevelopment of inner-city areas -- Smart growth -- Federal government land-use issues -- Issues-Analysis: Decision making in land-use planning-the malling of America -- New For Chapter 13: -- New section on smart growth -- ".
• catalog description "Nature of the problem: -- Disposable decades -- Current trends -- Methods of waste disposal: -- Landfills -- Incineration -- Environmental Close-Up: Resins used in consumer packaging: -- Composting -- Source reduction -- Environmental Close-Up: What you can do to reduce waste and save money: -- Recycling -- Environmental Close-Up: Recycling is big business -- Environmental Close-Up: Recyclables market basket -- Issue-Analysis: Corporate response to environmental concerns -- New For Chapter 18: -- New material on mining, manufacturing, and agricultural solid waste -- Updated information about fresh kills landfill -- Revised material on kinds of composting -- Regulating Hazardous Materials: -- Hazardous and toxic materials in our environment -- Hazardous and toxic substances-some definitions -- Defining hazardous waste -- Issues involved in setting regulations -- Environmental Close-Up: Determining toxicity: -- Identification of hazardous and toxic materials -- ".
• catalog description "New section on biological, chemical, and eco-terrorism -- Updated table on US environmental and resource conservation legislation -- New environmental close-up reading on United States environmental policy -- Appendix 1: Critical thinking -- Appendix 2: Periodic table of the elements -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index.".
• catalog description "New section on the molecular nature of matter -- Clarification usage of the words molecule, compound, ions -- New material on endothermic and exothermic reactions -- New content on chemical reactions for photosynthesis and respiration -- Interactions: Environment And Organisms: -- Ecological concepts -- Environment -- Limiting factors -- Habitat and niche -- Role of natural selection and evolution: -- Genes, populations, and species -- Environmental Close-Up: Habitat conservation plans: tool or token?: -- Natural selection -- Evolutionary patterns -- Kinds of organism interactions: -- Predation -- Competition -- Symbiotic relationships -- Some relationships are difficult to categorize -- Environmental Close-Up: Human interaction: a different look -- Community and ecosystem interactions: -- Major roles of organisms in ecosystems -- Keystone species -- Energy flow through ecosystems -- Food chains and food webs -- ".
• catalog description "New table on sources of US imported oil -- Expanded section on the instability of global oil production -- New figure: what we pay for in a gallon of regular gasoline -- New table on drive time -- Updated statistics on oil consumption by the world -- New figure: world oil market chronology: 1970-2000 -- Energy Sources: -- Energy sources -- Resources and reserves -- Fossil-fuel formation: -- Coal -- Oil and natural gas -- Issues related to use of fossil fuels: -- Coal use -- Oil use -- Natural gas use -- Renewable sources of energy: -- Hydroelectric power -- Global Perspective: Hydroelectric sites: -- Tidal power -- Global perspective: Three Gorges Dam: -- Geothermal power -- Wind power -- Solar energy -- Biomass conversion -- Fuelwood -- Solid waste -- Global Perspective: Are fuel cells the future? -- Energy conservation -- Issues-Analysis: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Oil -- New For Chapter 10: -- New coverage on wind, tidal, and hydropower -- ".
• catalog description "New table on state comprehensive growth legislation --".
• catalog description "Other agricultural chemicals -- Problems with pesticide use: -- Persistence -- Bioaccumulation and biomagnification -- Pesticide resistance -- Effects on nontarget organisms -- Global Perspective: China's ravenous appetite -- Global Perspective: Contaminated soils in the former Soviet Union: -- Human health concerns -- Why are pesticides so widely used? -- Alternatives to conventional agriculture -- Environmental Close-Up: Industrial production of livestock -- Environmental Close-Up: Food additives: -- Techniques for protecting soil and water resources -- Integrated pest management -- Issues-Analysis: Herring Gulls as indicators of contamination in the Great Lakes -- New For Chapter 15: -- New environmental close-up reading on industrial livestock production -- Reorganization of section on integrated pest management -- Updated information on genetically modified organisms -- Water Management: -- Water issue -- Hydrologic cycle -- Human influences on the hydrologic cycle -- ".
• catalog description "Part 2: -- Ecological Principles And Their Application -- Fixing nature?: Restoration And The Florida Everglades -- Interrelated Scientific Principles: Matter, Energy And Environment: -- Scientific Thinking: -- Scientific method -- Observation -- Questioning and exploring -- Constructing hypotheses -- Testing hypothesis -- Development of theories and laws -- Environmental Close-Up: Typical household chemicals -- Limitations of science -- Structure of matter: -- Atomic structure -- Molecular nature of matter -- Acids, bases and pH -- Inorganic and organic matter -- Chemical reactions -- Chemical reactions in living things -- Energy Principles: -- Kinds of energy -- States of matter -- First and second laws of thermodynamics -- Environmental implication of energy flow -- Issues-Analysis: Improvements in lighting efficiency -- New For Chapter 4: -- Rewritten section on the scientific method -- Additional material and an illustration on isotopes -- ".
• catalog description "Preface -- Guided tour -- About the authors -- Part 1: -- Interrelatedness -- Deer hunting within the city of brotherly love? -- Environmental Interrelationships: -- Field of environmental science -- Interrelated nature of environmental problems -- Environmental Close-Up: Science versus policy -- Global Perspective: Fish, seals, and jobs -- Ecosystem approach -- Regional environmental concerns -- Environmental Close-up: Headwaters forest: -- Wilderness north -- Agricultural middle -- Environmental Close-Up: Greater Yellowstone ecosystem: -- Dry west -- Forested west -- Great Lakes and industrial northeast -- Diverse south -- New For Chapter 1: -- Expanded coverage on sustainable development and agenda -- Environmental Ethics: -- Views of nature -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental attitudes -- Environmental Close-Up: Naturalist philosophers -- Societal environmental ethics -- Environmental Close-Up: Environmental philosophy -- Corporate environmental ethics -- ".
• catalog description "Publisher Description: This full-color, introductory environmental science text is known for being concise, conceptual. The approach and reading level cover the basic concepts without overloading students with too much detail. With the central theme throughout the text being interrelatedness, the authors identify major issues and give appropriate examples that illustrate the complex interactions that are characteristic of all environmental issues.".
• catalog description "Setting exposure limits -- Acute and chronic toxicity -- Synergism -- Persistent and nonpersistent pollutants -- Global Perspective: Lead and mercury poisoning: -- Environmental problems caused by hazardous wastes -- Health risks associated with hazardous wastes -- Hazardous-waste dumps-a legacy of abuse -- Environmental Close-Up: Computer-a hazardous waste: -- Toxic chemical release -- Hazardous-waste management choices: -- Reducing the amount of waste at the source -- Recycling of wastes -- Treatment of wastes -- Disposal methods -- International trade in hazardous wastes -- Global Perspective: Hazardous wastes and toxic materials in China -- Hazardous-waste management program -- Issues-Analysis: Love Canal -- New For Chapter 19: -- New information on the different agencies that set regulations -- Additional coverage on the success of superfund -- Update tables on hazardous substances and wastes -- New figure on toxic releases -- New figure on pollution-prevention hierarchy -- ".
• catalog description "Soil And Its Uses: -- Geologic processes -- Soil and land -- Soil formation -- Soil properties -- Soil profile -- Soil erosion -- Soil conservation practices: -- Contour farming -- Strip farming -- Terracing -- Waterways -- Windbreaks -- Conventional versus conservation tillage -- Environmental Close-Up: Land capability classes -- Global Perspective: Worldwide soil degradation -- Protecting soil on nonfarm land -- Issues-Analysis: Soil erosion in Virginia -- New For Chapter 14: -- Table 14-1, Percentage of land suitable for agriculture, has been updated -- Information on land degradation has been expanded -- Agricultural Methods And Pest Management: -- Different approaches to agriculture -- Fossil fuel versus muscle power -- Impact of fertilizer -- Agricultural chemical use -- Environmental Close-Up: DDT-A historical perspective: -- Insecticides -- Herbicides -- Fungicides and rodenticides -- Environmental Close-Up: New generation of insecticides: -- ".
• catalog description "Updated information on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Updated materials on gasoline price swings -- New global perspective reading on hydrogen fuel cells -- Nuclear Energy: Benefits And Risks: -- Nature of nuclear energy -- History of nuclear energy development -- Nuclear reactors: -- Plans for new reactors worldwide -- Plant life extension -- Breeder reactors -- Nuclear fusion -- Nuclear fuel cycle -- Nuclear material and weapons production -- Nuclear power concerns: -- Reactor safety: the effects of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl -- Exposure to radiation -- Thermal pollution -- Decommissioning costs -- Radioactive waste disposal -- Global perspective: Nuclear legacy of the Soviet Union -- Environmental Close-Up: Hanford Facility: a legacy of contamination -- New For Chapter 11: -- New environmental close-up reading on the Hanford Facility -- Updated text on Chernobyl and worldwide nuclear power plants -- ".
• catalog description "Updated material on AIDS -- Part 3: -- Energy -- Skull Valley: A Reservation For Disaster?: -- Energy And Civilization: Patterns Of Consumption: -- History of energy consumption: -- Biological energy sources -- Increased use of wood -- Fossil fuels and the industrial revolution -- Energy and economics: -- Economic growth and energy consumption -- Role of the automobile -- Gasoline prices and government policy -- Global Perspective: Five ways to curb traffic -- How energy is used: -- Residential and commercial energy use -- Industrial energy use -- Transportation energy use -- Environmental Close-Up: Hybrid electric vehicles: -- Variability of gasoline prices -- Electrical energy -- Energy consumption trends -- Environmental Close-Up: Alternative-fuel vehicles -- Global Perspective: Energy development in China -- Global perspective: Potential world petroleum resources -- OPEC -- New For Chapter 9: -- Revised coverage of variations in yearly gasoline prices -- ".
• catalog extent "1 v. (various pagings) :".
• catalog hasFormat "Environmental science.".
• catalog identifier "0072440007 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Environmental science.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education,".
• catalog relation "Environmental science.".
• catalog subject "363.7 21".
• catalog subject "Environmental sciences.".
• catalog subject "GE105 .E54 2004".
• catalog tableOfContents "Areas with minimal human impact-wilderness and remote areas -- Managing aquatic ecosystems: -- Environmental cost associated with utilizing marine ecosystems -- Global Perspective: History of the Bison: -- Environmental costs associated with utilizing freshwater ecosystems -- Aquaculture -- Environmental Close-Up: Farming, fish kills, and Pfiesteria piscicida -- Managing ecosystems for wildlife: -- Habitat analysis and management -- Population assessment and management -- Environmental Close-Up: Native American Fishing rights: -- Predator and competitor control -- Special issue with migratory waterfowl management -- Extinction and loss of biodiversity: -- Human-accelerated extinction -- Why worry about extinction? -- What is being done to prevent extinction and protect biodiversity? -- Environmental Close-Up: California condor -- Issues-Analysis: Fire as a forest management tool -- New For Chapter 12: -- Rewritten section on plantation forestry -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Clarified definitions of marine, brackish, and freshwater -- Updated figure on forms of pollution -- New figure on change in forest areas -- New figure on trends in world fish production, including capture and aquaculture -- Rewritten section on aquaculture -- New material on the African Eurasian waterbird agreement -- New coverage on the role of keystone species and how their elimination alters ecosystems -- Updated references to President Bush's administrative policy -- Land-Use Planning: -- Need for planning -- Historical forces that shaped land use in North America: -- Importance of waterways -- Rural-to-urban shift -- Global Perspective: Urbanization in the developing world -- Migration from the central city to the suburbs -- Factors that contribute to sprawl: -- Lifestyle factors -- Economic factors -- Planning and policy factors -- Problems associated with unplanned urban growth: -- Transportation problems -- Air pollution -- Low energy efficiency -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Control of motor vehicle emissions -- Control of particulate matter emissions -- Control of power plant emissions -- Clean Air Act -- Acid deposition -- Ozone depletion -- Environmental Close-Up: Secondhand smoke -- Global warming and climate change: -- Causes of global warming and climate change -- Potential consequences of global warming and climate change -- Addressing climate change -- Global Perspective: Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Gases -- Indoor air pollution -- Environmental Close-up: Radon -- Environmental Close-Up: Noise pollution -- Issues-Analysis: International air pollution -- New For Chapter 17: -- Fully reorganized chapter -- Text now includes material on the six criteria air pollutants -- Two new figures on photochemical smog -- New figure on thermal inversion -- New data on emissions and air quality -- New data on average global temperature -- New table on categories of air pollutants -- Sold Waste Management And Disposal: -- Introduction to waste management -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Environmental Close-Up: Contaminants in the food chain of fish from the Great Lakes: -- Nutrient cycles in ecosystems: biogeochemical cycles -- Human impact on nutrient cycles -- Issues-Analysis: Reintroducing wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem -- New For Chapter 5: -- New section: Genes, populations, and species -- New herbicide resistance illustration -- New section on polyploidy -- Biogeochemical cycles now in nutrient cycles section -- New material on the operation of the carbon cycle in aquatic systems -- Kinds Of Ecosystems And Communities: -- Succession: -- Primary succession -- Secondary succession -- Modern concepts of succession and climax -- Biomass: major types of terrestrial climax communities: -- Effect of elevation on climate and vegetation -- Desert -- Grassland -- Environmental Close-Up: Grassland succession: -- Savanna -- Mediterranean shrublands -- Tropical dry forest -- Global Perspective: Tropical rainforests: special case? -- Tropical rainforest -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Environmental Close-Up: Forest canopy studies: -- Temperate deciduous forest -- Taiga, Northern coniferous forest, or boreal forest -- Tundra -- Major aquatic ecosystems: -- Marine ecosystems -- Freshwater ecosystems -- Issue-Analysis: Protecting old-growth temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest -- New For Chapter 6: -- New content on ways that humans affect the process of succession -- New sections on Mediterranean shrublands (chaparral) and tropical dry forests -- Population Principles: -- Population characteristics: -- Natality and mortality -- Sex ratio and age distribution -- Population density and spatial distribution -- Summary of factors that influence population growth rates -- Population growth curve -- Carrying capacity -- Environmental Close-Up: Population growth of invading species -- Reproductive strategies and population fluctuations -- Human population growth: -- Available raw materials -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Environmental Close-Up: Georgia-Pacific Corporation: Recycled urban wood-a case study in extended product responsibility: -- Extended product responsibility -- Extended product responsibility -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Concerns about the use of cost-benefit analysis -- Economics and sustainable development -- Environmental Close-Up: Green advertising claims: points to consider: -- External costs -- Common property resource problems -- Global Perspective: Pollution prevention pays!: -- Economic decision making and the biophysical world -- Environmental Close-Up: Placing a value on ecosystem services -- Global Perspective: Costa Rican forest yield tourists and medicines: -- Economics, environment, and developing nations -- Tragedy of the commons -- Lightening the load -- Issues-Analysis: Shrimp, turtles, and turtle excluder devices -- New For Chapter 3: -- Expanded section on public perceptions of environmental risks -- More information on extended product responsibility -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Environmental Policy And Decision Making: -- New challenges for a new century -- Learning from the past -- Thinking about the future -- Defining the future -- Development of environmental policy in the United States: -- Environmental backlash-the wise use movement -- Changing nature of environmental policy -- Environmental Close-Up: Shaping US environmental policy as the new century begins -- Environmental policy and regulation -- Greening of geopolitics -- Environmental Close-Up: Changing the nature of environmental regulation-the Safe Drinking Water Act -- Terrorism and the environment -- International environmental policy -- Global Perspective: Earth summit on environment and development -- Global Perspective: Overview of an international organization-the International Whaling Commission -- Global Perspective: Eco-labels: -- Environmental policy and the European Union -- New International instruments -- It all come back to you -- New For Chapter 20:-- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Expanded coverage on global water issues -- More information on water treatment in the Salina Valley, California -- Expanded material on chemicals entering drinking water sources -- More discussion of the New York City water supply -- Additional text on water diversion and extractions -- Expanded material on wetlands -- New table on the population of the world's ten largest watersheds -- New table on international water disputes -- New coverage of the national research council's report on envisioning the agenda for water resource research in the 21st century -- Part 5: -- Pollution And Policy Environmental Policy: Pragmatic Or Polluted? -- Air Quality Issues: -- Atmosphere -- Categories of air pollutants: -- Carbon monoxide -- Volatile organic compounds -- Particulate matter -- Global Perspective: Air pollution in Mexico City: -- Sulfur dioxide -- Nitrogen dioxide -- Lead -- Ground-level ozone and photochemical smog -- Hazardous air pollutants -- Control of air pollution: -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Expanded section on decommissioning policies for nuclear facilities -- More information about nuclear terrorism -- Part 4: -- Human Influences On Ecosystems -- Slaton, A Sea Of Controversy -- Human Impact On Resources And Ecosystems: -- Changing role of human impact -- Historical basis of pollution -- Renewable and nonrenewable resources -- Costs associated with resource utilization -- Mineral resources: -- Steps in mineral utilization -- Recycling of mineral materials -- Utilization and modification of terrestrial ecosystems: -- Impact of agriculture on natural ecosystems -- Managing forest ecosystems: -- Economic and energy cost of utilizing forest ecosystems -- Environmental costs of utilizing forest ecosystems -- Environmental implication of various harvesting methods -- Plantation forestry -- Environmental Close-Up: Northern Spotted Owl: -- Special concerns about tropical deforestation -- Managing rangelands ecosystems: -- Environmental costs of utilizing rangelands -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Global Perspective: Chico Mendes and extractive reserves -- Environmental justice -- Individual environmental ethics -- Do we consume too much? -- Global Perspective: International trade in endangered species: -- Food -- Nature -- Oil -- Water -- Unknown -- Global Perspective: Gray whales of Neah Bay -- Global environmental ethics -- Issues-Analysis: Antarctic: resource or refuge? -- New For Chapter 2: New section: Do we consume too much? -- More information on the global reporting initiative -- New global perspective reading on the gray whales of Neah Bay -- Risk And Cost: Elements Of Decision Making: -- Measuring risk: -- Risk assessment -- Environmental Close-Up: What's in a number?: -- Risk management -- True and perceived risks -- Economics and the environment: -- Economic concepts -- Market-based instruments -- Global Perspective: Wombats and the Australian stock exchange -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Global Perspectives: Managing elephant populations-harvest or birth control?: -- Available energy -- Waste disposal -- Interaction with other organisms -- Social factors influence human population -- Issue-Analysis: Wolves and moose on Isle Royale: -- Ultimate size limitation -- New For Chapter 7: -- Updated human population information -- More explanation on how the population growth rate is calculated -- New illustration on survivorship curves -- Revised material on age distribution -- Updated issues: analysis reading on wolves and moose on Isle Royale --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Human Population Issues: -- Human population trends and implications -- Global Perspective: Thomas Malthus and his essay on population -- Factors that influence population growth: -- Biological factors -- Social factors -- Environmental Close-Up: Control of births: -- Political factors -- Population growth and standard of living -- Population and poverty: a vicious cycle? -- Hunger, food production, and environmental degradation -- Demographic transition concept -- Global Perspective: Urbanization of the world's population -- US population picture anticipated changes with continued population growth -- Global Perspective: North America-population comparisons -- Issues-Analysis: Impact of AIDS on populations -- New For Chapter 8: -- Updated information on human population issues -- New table on population characteristics of the 20 most populous countries -- Revised section on population growth and standard of living -- More information from the 2000 census -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Kinds of water use: -- Domestic use of water -- Agricultural use of water -- Industrial use of water -- In-stream use of water -- Global Perspective: Comparing water use and pollution in industrialized and developing countries -- Kinds and sources of water pollution -- Environmental Close-Up: Is it safe to drink the water?: -- Municipal water pollution -- Global Perspective: Cleanup of the Holy Ganges: -- Agricultural water pollution -- Industrial water pollution -- Thermal pollution -- Marine oil pollution -- Groundwater pollution -- Water-use planning issues: -- Water diversion -- Wastewater treatment -- Environmental Close-Up: Restoring the Everglades: -- Salinization -- Groundwater mining -- Preserving scenic water areas and wildlife habitats -- Global Perspective: Death of a sea -- Global perspective: Death zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- Issues-Analysis: California water plan -- New For Chapter 16: -- New Global perspective reading on the dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Loss of sense of community -- Death of the central city -- Higher infrastructure costs -- Loss of open space -- Loss of farmland -- Water pollution problems -- Floodplain problems -- Wetlands misuse -- Environmental Close-Up: Wetlands loss in Louisiana: -- Other land-use considerations -- Land-use planning principles -- Environmental Close-Up: Computer tools aid decision making-growing smarter to protect habitats -- Mechanisms for implementing land-use plans -- Establishing state or regional planning agencies -- Purchasing land or use rights -- Regulating use -- Special urban planning issues: -- Urban transportation planning -- Environmental Close-Up: Land-use planning and aesthetic pollution: -- Urban recreation planning -- Redevelopment of inner-city areas -- Smart growth -- Federal government land-use issues -- Issues-Analysis: Decision making in land-use planning-the malling of America -- New For Chapter 13: -- New section on smart growth -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Nature of the problem: -- Disposable decades -- Current trends -- Methods of waste disposal: -- Landfills -- Incineration -- Environmental Close-Up: Resins used in consumer packaging: -- Composting -- Source reduction -- Environmental Close-Up: What you can do to reduce waste and save money: -- Recycling -- Environmental Close-Up: Recycling is big business -- Environmental Close-Up: Recyclables market basket -- Issue-Analysis: Corporate response to environmental concerns -- New For Chapter 18: -- New material on mining, manufacturing, and agricultural solid waste -- Updated information about fresh kills landfill -- Revised material on kinds of composting -- Regulating Hazardous Materials: -- Hazardous and toxic materials in our environment -- Hazardous and toxic substances-some definitions -- Defining hazardous waste -- Issues involved in setting regulations -- Environmental Close-Up: Determining toxicity: -- Identification of hazardous and toxic materials -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "New section on biological, chemical, and eco-terrorism -- Updated table on US environmental and resource conservation legislation -- New environmental close-up reading on United States environmental policy -- Appendix 1: Critical thinking -- Appendix 2: Periodic table of the elements -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index.".
• catalog tableOfContents "New section on the molecular nature of matter -- Clarification usage of the words molecule, compound, ions -- New material on endothermic and exothermic reactions -- New content on chemical reactions for photosynthesis and respiration -- Interactions: Environment And Organisms: -- Ecological concepts -- Environment -- Limiting factors -- Habitat and niche -- Role of natural selection and evolution: -- Genes, populations, and species -- Environmental Close-Up: Habitat conservation plans: tool or token?: -- Natural selection -- Evolutionary patterns -- Kinds of organism interactions: -- Predation -- Competition -- Symbiotic relationships -- Some relationships are difficult to categorize -- Environmental Close-Up: Human interaction: a different look -- Community and ecosystem interactions: -- Major roles of organisms in ecosystems -- Keystone species -- Energy flow through ecosystems -- Food chains and food webs -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "New table on sources of US imported oil -- Expanded section on the instability of global oil production -- New figure: what we pay for in a gallon of regular gasoline -- New table on drive time -- Updated statistics on oil consumption by the world -- New figure: world oil market chronology: 1970-2000 -- Energy Sources: -- Energy sources -- Resources and reserves -- Fossil-fuel formation: -- Coal -- Oil and natural gas -- Issues related to use of fossil fuels: -- Coal use -- Oil use -- Natural gas use -- Renewable sources of energy: -- Hydroelectric power -- Global Perspective: Hydroelectric sites: -- Tidal power -- Global perspective: Three Gorges Dam: -- Geothermal power -- Wind power -- Solar energy -- Biomass conversion -- Fuelwood -- Solid waste -- Global Perspective: Are fuel cells the future? -- Energy conservation -- Issues-Analysis: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Oil -- New For Chapter 10: -- New coverage on wind, tidal, and hydropower -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "New table on state comprehensive growth legislation --".
• catalog tableOfContents "Other agricultural chemicals -- Problems with pesticide use: -- Persistence -- Bioaccumulation and biomagnification -- Pesticide resistance -- Effects on nontarget organisms -- Global Perspective: China's ravenous appetite -- Global Perspective: Contaminated soils in the former Soviet Union: -- Human health concerns -- Why are pesticides so widely used? -- Alternatives to conventional agriculture -- Environmental Close-Up: Industrial production of livestock -- Environmental Close-Up: Food additives: -- Techniques for protecting soil and water resources -- Integrated pest management -- Issues-Analysis: Herring Gulls as indicators of contamination in the Great Lakes -- New For Chapter 15: -- New environmental close-up reading on industrial livestock production -- Reorganization of section on integrated pest management -- Updated information on genetically modified organisms -- Water Management: -- Water issue -- Hydrologic cycle -- Human influences on the hydrologic cycle -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part 2: -- Ecological Principles And Their Application -- Fixing nature?: Restoration And The Florida Everglades -- Interrelated Scientific Principles: Matter, Energy And Environment: -- Scientific Thinking: -- Scientific method -- Observation -- Questioning and exploring -- Constructing hypotheses -- Testing hypothesis -- Development of theories and laws -- Environmental Close-Up: Typical household chemicals -- Limitations of science -- Structure of matter: -- Atomic structure -- Molecular nature of matter -- Acids, bases and pH -- Inorganic and organic matter -- Chemical reactions -- Chemical reactions in living things -- Energy Principles: -- Kinds of energy -- States of matter -- First and second laws of thermodynamics -- Environmental implication of energy flow -- Issues-Analysis: Improvements in lighting efficiency -- New For Chapter 4: -- Rewritten section on the scientific method -- Additional material and an illustration on isotopes -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Guided tour -- About the authors -- Part 1: -- Interrelatedness -- Deer hunting within the city of brotherly love? -- Environmental Interrelationships: -- Field of environmental science -- Interrelated nature of environmental problems -- Environmental Close-Up: Science versus policy -- Global Perspective: Fish, seals, and jobs -- Ecosystem approach -- Regional environmental concerns -- Environmental Close-up: Headwaters forest: -- Wilderness north -- Agricultural middle -- Environmental Close-Up: Greater Yellowstone ecosystem: -- Dry west -- Forested west -- Great Lakes and industrial northeast -- Diverse south -- New For Chapter 1: -- Expanded coverage on sustainable development and agenda -- Environmental Ethics: -- Views of nature -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental attitudes -- Environmental Close-Up: Naturalist philosophers -- Societal environmental ethics -- Environmental Close-Up: Environmental philosophy -- Corporate environmental ethics -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Setting exposure limits -- Acute and chronic toxicity -- Synergism -- Persistent and nonpersistent pollutants -- Global Perspective: Lead and mercury poisoning: -- Environmental problems caused by hazardous wastes -- Health risks associated with hazardous wastes -- Hazardous-waste dumps-a legacy of abuse -- Environmental Close-Up: Computer-a hazardous waste: -- Toxic chemical release -- Hazardous-waste management choices: -- Reducing the amount of waste at the source -- Recycling of wastes -- Treatment of wastes -- Disposal methods -- International trade in hazardous wastes -- Global Perspective: Hazardous wastes and toxic materials in China -- Hazardous-waste management program -- Issues-Analysis: Love Canal -- New For Chapter 19: -- New information on the different agencies that set regulations -- Additional coverage on the success of superfund -- Update tables on hazardous substances and wastes -- New figure on toxic releases -- New figure on pollution-prevention hierarchy -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Soil And Its Uses: -- Geologic processes -- Soil and land -- Soil formation -- Soil properties -- Soil profile -- Soil erosion -- Soil conservation practices: -- Contour farming -- Strip farming -- Terracing -- Waterways -- Windbreaks -- Conventional versus conservation tillage -- Environmental Close-Up: Land capability classes -- Global Perspective: Worldwide soil degradation -- Protecting soil on nonfarm land -- Issues-Analysis: Soil erosion in Virginia -- New For Chapter 14: -- Table 14-1, Percentage of land suitable for agriculture, has been updated -- Information on land degradation has been expanded -- Agricultural Methods And Pest Management: -- Different approaches to agriculture -- Fossil fuel versus muscle power -- Impact of fertilizer -- Agricultural chemical use -- Environmental Close-Up: DDT-A historical perspective: -- Insecticides -- Herbicides -- Fungicides and rodenticides -- Environmental Close-Up: New generation of insecticides: -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Updated information on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Updated materials on gasoline price swings -- New global perspective reading on hydrogen fuel cells -- Nuclear Energy: Benefits And Risks: -- Nature of nuclear energy -- History of nuclear energy development -- Nuclear reactors: -- Plans for new reactors worldwide -- Plant life extension -- Breeder reactors -- Nuclear fusion -- Nuclear fuel cycle -- Nuclear material and weapons production -- Nuclear power concerns: -- Reactor safety: the effects of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl -- Exposure to radiation -- Thermal pollution -- Decommissioning costs -- Radioactive waste disposal -- Global perspective: Nuclear legacy of the Soviet Union -- Environmental Close-Up: Hanford Facility: a legacy of contamination -- New For Chapter 11: -- New environmental close-up reading on the Hanford Facility -- Updated text on Chernobyl and worldwide nuclear power plants -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "Updated material on AIDS -- Part 3: -- Energy -- Skull Valley: A Reservation For Disaster?: -- Energy And Civilization: Patterns Of Consumption: -- History of energy consumption: -- Biological energy sources -- Increased use of wood -- Fossil fuels and the industrial revolution -- Energy and economics: -- Economic growth and energy consumption -- Role of the automobile -- Gasoline prices and government policy -- Global Perspective: Five ways to curb traffic -- How energy is used: -- Residential and commercial energy use -- Industrial energy use -- Transportation energy use -- Environmental Close-Up: Hybrid electric vehicles: -- Variability of gasoline prices -- Electrical energy -- Energy consumption trends -- Environmental Close-Up: Alternative-fuel vehicles -- Global Perspective: Energy development in China -- Global perspective: Potential world petroleum resources -- OPEC -- New For Chapter 9: -- Revised coverage of variations in yearly gasoline prices -- ".
• catalog title "Environmental science : a study of interrelationships.".
• catalog type "text".