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Essential Environmental Science provides a non-quantitative approach that is based on principles, critical thinking and the big questions that are driving the field today. It offers a condensed look at the field, covering topics in way that will help readers answer the "big questions." It eliminates more detailed or advanced topics to make the material more accessible while also placing the focus on today s important issues.
Essential Environmental Science provides a non-quantitative approach that is based on principles, critical thinking and the big questions that are driving the field today. It offers a condensed look at the field, covering topics in way that will help readers answer the "big questions." It eliminates more detailed or advanced topics to make the material more accessible while also placing the focus on today s important issues.
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- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 480
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 274mm x 216mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 888g
- ISBN-13: 9780471704119
- ISBN-10: 0471704113
- Artikelnr.: 23030327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung Die Herstellerinformationen sind derzeit nicht verfügbar.
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 480
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 274mm x 216mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 888g
- ISBN-13: 9780471704119
- ISBN-10: 0471704113
- Artikelnr.: 23030327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung Die Herstellerinformationen sind derzeit nicht verfügbar.
Chapter 1. Fundamental Issues in Environmental Science.
Big Question: Why is Science Necessary to Solve Environmental Problems?
Case Study: Easter Island.
1.1 Fundamental Principles.
1.2 Human Population: The Basic Environmental Problem.
1.3 Sustainability.
Earth s Carrying Capacity.
1.4 A Global Perspective.
1.5 Cities Affect the Environment.
1.6 People and Nature.
1.7 Science and Values.
1.8 Solving Many Environmental Problems Involves Systems and Rates of Change.
Environmental Unity.
Changes and Equilibriums in Systems.
Biota: Biosphere and Sustaining Life Characteristics of Environmental Systems That Make Solving Environmental Problems Harder.
1.9 The Precautionary Principle: When in Doubt, Play It Safe.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Chapter 2. Human Population Growth.
Big Question: Why is it the Underlying Environmental Problem?
Case Study: How the Great Tsunami of 2004 Affected the Human Population.
2.1 How Populations Change Over Time: Basic Concepts of Population Dynamics.
The Prophecy of Malthus.
2.2 Population Growth.
How Many People Have Lived on Earth?
2.3 The Logistic Growth Curve.
2.4 Other Clues to How Our Population May Change.
Age Structure.
The Demographic Transition.
Human Death Rates and the Rise of Industrial Societies.
Longevity and Its Effect on Population Growth.
Life Expectancy.
2.5 Limiting Factors.
The Quality of Life and the Human Carrying Capacity of Earth.
2.6 How Can We Achieve Zero Population Growth?
2.7 How Many People Can Earth Support?
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 3. Biogeochemical Cycles.
Big Question: Why Are Biogeochemical Cycles Essential to Long Term Life on Earth?
Case Study: Lake Washington.
3.1 How Chemicals Cycle.
Biogeochemical Cycles.
Chemical Reactions.
3.2 Environmental Questions and Biogeochemical Cycles.
Biological Questions.
Geologic Questions.
Atmospheric Questions.
Hydrologic Questions.
3.3 Biogeochemical Cycles and Life: Limiting Factors.
3.4 General Concepts Central to Biogeochemical Cycles.
3.5 The Geologic Cycle.
The Tectonic Cycle.
The Hydrologic Cycle.
The Rock Cycle.
3.6 Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems.
Ecosystem Cycles of a Metal and a Nonmetal.
Chemical Cycling and the "Balance of Nature".
3.7 Some Major Global Chemical Cycles.
The Carbon Cycle.
The Missing Carbon Sink.
The Nitrogen Cycle.
The Phosphorus Cycle.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 4. Ecosystems.
Big Question: What is Necessary to Sustain Life on Earth?
Case Study: The Acorn Connection.
4.1 How Populations Change Over Time and Interact with Each Other.
4.2 Professions and Places: The Ecological Niche and the Habitat.
Measuring Niches.
4.3 The Competitive Exclusion Principle.
4.4 How Species Coexist.
4.5 Symbiosis.
4.6 The Community Effect.
4.7 The Ecosystem: Sustaining Life on Earth.
4.8 Basic Characteristics of Ecosystems.
4.9 Food Webs.
4.10 Ecosystem Energy Flow.
Life and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Producing New Organic Matter.
Practical Implication I: Human Domination of Ecosystems.
Practical Implication II: Ecosystem Management.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 5. Biological Diversity.
Big Question : Can We Save Endangered Species and Keep Biological Diversity High?
Case Study : The Shrinking Mississippi Delta.
5.1 What is Biological Diversity?
5.2 Biological Evolution.
Mutation.
Big Question: Why is Science Necessary to Solve Environmental Problems?
Case Study: Easter Island.
1.1 Fundamental Principles.
1.2 Human Population: The Basic Environmental Problem.
1.3 Sustainability.
Earth s Carrying Capacity.
1.4 A Global Perspective.
1.5 Cities Affect the Environment.
1.6 People and Nature.
1.7 Science and Values.
1.8 Solving Many Environmental Problems Involves Systems and Rates of Change.
Environmental Unity.
Changes and Equilibriums in Systems.
Biota: Biosphere and Sustaining Life Characteristics of Environmental Systems That Make Solving Environmental Problems Harder.
1.9 The Precautionary Principle: When in Doubt, Play It Safe.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Chapter 2. Human Population Growth.
Big Question: Why is it the Underlying Environmental Problem?
Case Study: How the Great Tsunami of 2004 Affected the Human Population.
2.1 How Populations Change Over Time: Basic Concepts of Population Dynamics.
The Prophecy of Malthus.
2.2 Population Growth.
How Many People Have Lived on Earth?
2.3 The Logistic Growth Curve.
2.4 Other Clues to How Our Population May Change.
Age Structure.
The Demographic Transition.
Human Death Rates and the Rise of Industrial Societies.
Longevity and Its Effect on Population Growth.
Life Expectancy.
2.5 Limiting Factors.
The Quality of Life and the Human Carrying Capacity of Earth.
2.6 How Can We Achieve Zero Population Growth?
2.7 How Many People Can Earth Support?
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 3. Biogeochemical Cycles.
Big Question: Why Are Biogeochemical Cycles Essential to Long Term Life on Earth?
Case Study: Lake Washington.
3.1 How Chemicals Cycle.
Biogeochemical Cycles.
Chemical Reactions.
3.2 Environmental Questions and Biogeochemical Cycles.
Biological Questions.
Geologic Questions.
Atmospheric Questions.
Hydrologic Questions.
3.3 Biogeochemical Cycles and Life: Limiting Factors.
3.4 General Concepts Central to Biogeochemical Cycles.
3.5 The Geologic Cycle.
The Tectonic Cycle.
The Hydrologic Cycle.
The Rock Cycle.
3.6 Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems.
Ecosystem Cycles of a Metal and a Nonmetal.
Chemical Cycling and the "Balance of Nature".
3.7 Some Major Global Chemical Cycles.
The Carbon Cycle.
The Missing Carbon Sink.
The Nitrogen Cycle.
The Phosphorus Cycle.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 4. Ecosystems.
Big Question: What is Necessary to Sustain Life on Earth?
Case Study: The Acorn Connection.
4.1 How Populations Change Over Time and Interact with Each Other.
4.2 Professions and Places: The Ecological Niche and the Habitat.
Measuring Niches.
4.3 The Competitive Exclusion Principle.
4.4 How Species Coexist.
4.5 Symbiosis.
4.6 The Community Effect.
4.7 The Ecosystem: Sustaining Life on Earth.
4.8 Basic Characteristics of Ecosystems.
4.9 Food Webs.
4.10 Ecosystem Energy Flow.
Life and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Producing New Organic Matter.
Practical Implication I: Human Domination of Ecosystems.
Practical Implication II: Ecosystem Management.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 5. Biological Diversity.
Big Question : Can We Save Endangered Species and Keep Biological Diversity High?
Case Study : The Shrinking Mississippi Delta.
5.1 What is Biological Diversity?
5.2 Biological Evolution.
Mutation.
Chapter 1. Fundamental Issues in Environmental Science.
Big Question: Why is Science Necessary to Solve Environmental Problems?
Case Study: Easter Island.
1.1 Fundamental Principles.
1.2 Human Population: The Basic Environmental Problem.
1.3 Sustainability.
Earth s Carrying Capacity.
1.4 A Global Perspective.
1.5 Cities Affect the Environment.
1.6 People and Nature.
1.7 Science and Values.
1.8 Solving Many Environmental Problems Involves Systems and Rates of Change.
Environmental Unity.
Changes and Equilibriums in Systems.
Biota: Biosphere and Sustaining Life Characteristics of Environmental Systems That Make Solving Environmental Problems Harder.
1.9 The Precautionary Principle: When in Doubt, Play It Safe.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Chapter 2. Human Population Growth.
Big Question: Why is it the Underlying Environmental Problem?
Case Study: How the Great Tsunami of 2004 Affected the Human Population.
2.1 How Populations Change Over Time: Basic Concepts of Population Dynamics.
The Prophecy of Malthus.
2.2 Population Growth.
How Many People Have Lived on Earth?
2.3 The Logistic Growth Curve.
2.4 Other Clues to How Our Population May Change.
Age Structure.
The Demographic Transition.
Human Death Rates and the Rise of Industrial Societies.
Longevity and Its Effect on Population Growth.
Life Expectancy.
2.5 Limiting Factors.
The Quality of Life and the Human Carrying Capacity of Earth.
2.6 How Can We Achieve Zero Population Growth?
2.7 How Many People Can Earth Support?
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 3. Biogeochemical Cycles.
Big Question: Why Are Biogeochemical Cycles Essential to Long Term Life on Earth?
Case Study: Lake Washington.
3.1 How Chemicals Cycle.
Biogeochemical Cycles.
Chemical Reactions.
3.2 Environmental Questions and Biogeochemical Cycles.
Biological Questions.
Geologic Questions.
Atmospheric Questions.
Hydrologic Questions.
3.3 Biogeochemical Cycles and Life: Limiting Factors.
3.4 General Concepts Central to Biogeochemical Cycles.
3.5 The Geologic Cycle.
The Tectonic Cycle.
The Hydrologic Cycle.
The Rock Cycle.
3.6 Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems.
Ecosystem Cycles of a Metal and a Nonmetal.
Chemical Cycling and the "Balance of Nature".
3.7 Some Major Global Chemical Cycles.
The Carbon Cycle.
The Missing Carbon Sink.
The Nitrogen Cycle.
The Phosphorus Cycle.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 4. Ecosystems.
Big Question: What is Necessary to Sustain Life on Earth?
Case Study: The Acorn Connection.
4.1 How Populations Change Over Time and Interact with Each Other.
4.2 Professions and Places: The Ecological Niche and the Habitat.
Measuring Niches.
4.3 The Competitive Exclusion Principle.
4.4 How Species Coexist.
4.5 Symbiosis.
4.6 The Community Effect.
4.7 The Ecosystem: Sustaining Life on Earth.
4.8 Basic Characteristics of Ecosystems.
4.9 Food Webs.
4.10 Ecosystem Energy Flow.
Life and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Producing New Organic Matter.
Practical Implication I: Human Domination of Ecosystems.
Practical Implication II: Ecosystem Management.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 5. Biological Diversity.
Big Question : Can We Save Endangered Species and Keep Biological Diversity High?
Case Study : The Shrinking Mississippi Delta.
5.1 What is Biological Diversity?
5.2 Biological Evolution.
Mutation.
Big Question: Why is Science Necessary to Solve Environmental Problems?
Case Study: Easter Island.
1.1 Fundamental Principles.
1.2 Human Population: The Basic Environmental Problem.
1.3 Sustainability.
Earth s Carrying Capacity.
1.4 A Global Perspective.
1.5 Cities Affect the Environment.
1.6 People and Nature.
1.7 Science and Values.
1.8 Solving Many Environmental Problems Involves Systems and Rates of Change.
Environmental Unity.
Changes and Equilibriums in Systems.
Biota: Biosphere and Sustaining Life Characteristics of Environmental Systems That Make Solving Environmental Problems Harder.
1.9 The Precautionary Principle: When in Doubt, Play It Safe.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Chapter 2. Human Population Growth.
Big Question: Why is it the Underlying Environmental Problem?
Case Study: How the Great Tsunami of 2004 Affected the Human Population.
2.1 How Populations Change Over Time: Basic Concepts of Population Dynamics.
The Prophecy of Malthus.
2.2 Population Growth.
How Many People Have Lived on Earth?
2.3 The Logistic Growth Curve.
2.4 Other Clues to How Our Population May Change.
Age Structure.
The Demographic Transition.
Human Death Rates and the Rise of Industrial Societies.
Longevity and Its Effect on Population Growth.
Life Expectancy.
2.5 Limiting Factors.
The Quality of Life and the Human Carrying Capacity of Earth.
2.6 How Can We Achieve Zero Population Growth?
2.7 How Many People Can Earth Support?
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 3. Biogeochemical Cycles.
Big Question: Why Are Biogeochemical Cycles Essential to Long Term Life on Earth?
Case Study: Lake Washington.
3.1 How Chemicals Cycle.
Biogeochemical Cycles.
Chemical Reactions.
3.2 Environmental Questions and Biogeochemical Cycles.
Biological Questions.
Geologic Questions.
Atmospheric Questions.
Hydrologic Questions.
3.3 Biogeochemical Cycles and Life: Limiting Factors.
3.4 General Concepts Central to Biogeochemical Cycles.
3.5 The Geologic Cycle.
The Tectonic Cycle.
The Hydrologic Cycle.
The Rock Cycle.
3.6 Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems.
Ecosystem Cycles of a Metal and a Nonmetal.
Chemical Cycling and the "Balance of Nature".
3.7 Some Major Global Chemical Cycles.
The Carbon Cycle.
The Missing Carbon Sink.
The Nitrogen Cycle.
The Phosphorus Cycle.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 4. Ecosystems.
Big Question: What is Necessary to Sustain Life on Earth?
Case Study: The Acorn Connection.
4.1 How Populations Change Over Time and Interact with Each Other.
4.2 Professions and Places: The Ecological Niche and the Habitat.
Measuring Niches.
4.3 The Competitive Exclusion Principle.
4.4 How Species Coexist.
4.5 Symbiosis.
4.6 The Community Effect.
4.7 The Ecosystem: Sustaining Life on Earth.
4.8 Basic Characteristics of Ecosystems.
4.9 Food Webs.
4.10 Ecosystem Energy Flow.
Life and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Producing New Organic Matter.
Practical Implication I: Human Domination of Ecosystems.
Practical Implication II: Ecosystem Management.
Return to the Big Question.
Summary.
Key Terms.
Getting It Straight.
What Do You Think?
Pulling It All Together.
Further Reading.
Chapter 5. Biological Diversity.
Big Question : Can We Save Endangered Species and Keep Biological Diversity High?
Case Study : The Shrinking Mississippi Delta.
5.1 What is Biological Diversity?
5.2 Biological Evolution.
Mutation.