James Craig, David Vaughan, Brian Skinner

Earth Resources and the Environment

Pearson New International Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resourcesâ energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 282mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1186g
• ISBN-13: 9781292040998
• ISBN-10: 1292040998
• Artikelnr.: 67515053

Inhaltsangabe

1. Minerals: The Foundations of Society 2. Plate Tectonics and the Origins
of Resources 3. Earth Resources Through History 4. Environmental Impacts of
Resource Exploitation and Use 5. Energy From Fossil Fuels 6. Nuclear and
Renewable Energy Sources 7. Abundant Metals 8. The Geochemically Scarce
Metals 9. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals 10. Building Materials and Other
Industrial Minerals 11. Water Resources 12. Soil as a Resource 13. Future
Resources