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Environmental Issues - A Reader (Paperback)
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Environmental Issues - A Reader (Paperback)
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Environmental Issues: A Reader provides students with a collection
of articles that describe current environmental challenges and
demonstrate the connections between daily actions and their
environmental impacts. The text helps readers develop a greater
awareness of environmental issues and inspires them to make more
conscious personal decisions to support a sustainable future. The
anthology is divided into four units that cover biodiversity and
ecosystem services; human population growth and food production;
pollutants in the environment and other environmental hazards; and
climate change and energy production. Each unit covers elements of
basic science as they relate to the highlighted topics. In Unit I,
the concepts of evolution, speciation, and extinction are discussed
to explain biodiversity; and nutrient cycling, water purification,
pollination, and food production are used as examples of ecosystem
services. Unit II reviews the basics of population ecology; the
importance of soil, water, nutrients, and pest control in
agriculture; and the pros and cons of genetic modification of
foods. In Unit III, students learn about environmental hazards,
toxicology, bioaccumulation, and more. The final unit reviews
climate issues and examines the pros and cons of sources of energy
such as fossil fuels, solar, wind, geothermal, and others.
Developed to support non-science majors, Environmental Issues is an
ideal resource for general education science courses, especially
those that focus on the environment and sustainability.
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