Environmental Science - Barbara Woodworth Saigo

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Résumé :
This book is intended for use in a one- or two-semester course in environmental science, human ecology, or environmental studies at the college or advanced placement high school level. Because most students who will use this book are freshman or sophomore nonscience majors, the authors have tried to make the text readable and accessible without technical jargon or a presumption of prior science background. At the same time, enough data and depth are presented to make this book suitable for many upper-division classes and a valuable resource for students who will keep it in their personal libraries after their formal studies are completed. The goal of this book is to provide an up-to-date, introductory view of essential themes in environmental science along with emphasis on details and case studies that will help students process and retain the general principles.

Biographie:
William Cunningham is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota where he taught for 36 years in the Departments of Botany and Genetics and Cell Biology as well as the Conservation Biology Program, the Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, the Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, and the McArthur Program in Global Change. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Texas in 1963 and spent two years at Purdue University as a postdoctoral fellow. At various times, he has been a visiting scholar in Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, and China, as well as several universities and research institutions in the United States.Dr. Cunningham has devoted himself to education and teaching development at the undergraduate level in biology. ?He began his educational career in structural biology but for the last 10-15 years has concentrated on environmental science, teaching courses such as Social Uses of Biology; Garbage, Government, and the Globe; Environmental Ethics; and Conservation History. ?Within the past four years, he has received both of the two highest teaching honors that the University of Minnesota bestows ?-- The Distinguished Teaching Award and a dollars15,000 Amoco Alumni Award. ?He has served as a Faculty Mentor for younger faculty at the university, sharing the knowledge and teaching skills that he has gained during his distinguished career.

Sommaire:

Introduction Learning to Learn

Part 1 Principles For Understanding Our Environment

1 Understanding Our Environment

2 Environmental Philosophy, Ethics and Science

3 Matter, Energy, and Life

4 Biological Communities and Species Interactions

5 Biomes: Global Patterns of Life

6 Population Biology

Part 2 People In The Environment

7 Human Populations

8 Environmental Health and Toxicology

9 Food and Agriculture

10 Pest Control

Part 3 Understanding and Managing Living Systems

11 Biodiversity

12 Land Use: Forests and Grasslands

13 Preserving and Restoring Nature

Part 4 Physical Resources and Environmental Systems

14 Geology and Earth Resources

15 Air, Weather, and Climate

16 Air Pollution

17 Water Use and Management

18 Water Pollution

Part 5 Issues and Policy

19 Conventional Energy

20 Sustainable Energy

21 Solid, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste

22 Urbanization and Sustainable Cities

23 Ecological Economics

24 Environmental Policy, Law, and Planning

25 What Then Shall We Do?