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Environmental Science plus Lms Integrated for Mindtap Environmental Science, 1-term Access 15 PCK LSL

  • Formaat:
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2015
  • Kirjastus: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
  • ISBN-10: 1305621379
  • ISBN-13: 9781305621374
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  • Formaat:
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2015
  • Kirjastus: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
  • ISBN-10: 1305621379
  • ISBN-13: 9781305621374
Teised raamatud teemal:
"Inspiring people to care about the planet …" In the new edition of ENVIRONNMENTAL SCIENCE, authors Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman have partnered with the National Geographic Society to develop a text designed to equip students with the inspiration and knowledge they need to make a difference solving today's environmental issues. Exclusive content highlights important work of National Geographic Explorers and Grantees and features over 180 new photos, maps, and illustrations that bring course concepts to life. The text's concept-centered approach transforms complex environmental topics and issues into key concepts that students will understand and remember.
Preface for Instructors xiv
Note to Students xxiii
HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW
1 Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
2(22)
Key Questions
2(2)
Core Case study The Greening of American Campuses
4(1)
1.1 What Are Some Principles of Sustainability?
5(5)
1.2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth?
10(3)
1.3 Why Do We Have Environmental Problems?
13(7)
Individuals Matter
Juan Martinez---Working to Reconnect People with Nature
17(3)
1.4 What Is an Environmentally Sustainable Society?
20(4)
Tying it all Together
21(1)
Chapter Review
21(1)
Critical Thinking
22(1)
Doing Environmental Science
23(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
23(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
23(1)
ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
2 Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems
24(16)
Key Questions
24(2)
Core Case STUDY How Do Scientists Learn about Nature? Experimenting with a Forest
26(1)
2.1 What Do Scientists Do?
27(2)
Individuals Matter
Jane Goodall: Chimpanzee Researcher and Protector
28(1)
2.2 What Is Matter and What Happens When It Undergoes Change?
29(4)
2.3 What Is Energy and What Happens When It Undergoes Change?
33(3)
2.4 What Are Systems and How Do They Respond to Change?
36(4)
Tying it all Together
37(1)
Chapter Review
38(1)
Critical Thinking
38(1)
Doing Environmental Science
39(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
39(1)
Data Analysis
39(1)
3 Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?
40(22)
Key Questions
40(2)
Core Case study Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing
42(1)
3.1 How Does the Earth's Life-Support System Work?
43(1)
3.2 What Are the Major Components of an Ecosystem?
44(4)
Science Focus Many of the World's Most Important Organisms Are Invisible to Us
46(2)
3.3 What Happens to Energy in an Ecosystem?
48(2)
3.4 What Happens to Matter in an Ecosystem?
50(7)
Science Focus Water's Unique Properties
51(6)
Individuals Matter
Thomas E. Lovejoy---Forest Researcher and Biodiversity Educator
57(1)
3.5 How Do Scientists Study Ecosystems?
57(5)
Science Focus Testing Planetary Boundaries: From Holocene to Anthropocene
58(1)
Tying it all Together
59(1)
Chapter Review
60(1)
Critical Thinking
60(1)
Doing Environmental Science
61(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
61(1)
Data Analysis
61(1)
4 Biodiversity and Evolution
62(20)
Key Questions
62(2)
Core Case Study Why Are Amphibians Vanishing?
64(1)
4.1 What Is Biodiversity and Why Is It Important?
65(3)
Science Focus Insects Play a Vital Role in Our World
66(1)
Individuals Matter
Edward O. Wilson: A Champion of Biodiversity
67(1)
4.2 What Roles Do Species Play in Ecosystems?
68(4)
Case Study The American Alligator---A Keystone Species That Almost Went Extinct
69(1)
Science Focus Scientists Are Searching for the Causes of Amphibian Declines
70(1)
Case Study Why Should We Protect Sharks?
71(1)
4.3 How Does the Earth's Life Change over Time?
72(2)
4.4 What Factors Affect Biodiversity?
74(8)
Science Focus Geological Processes Affect Biodiversity
76(2)
Tying it all Together
78(1)
Chapter Review
79(1)
Critical Thinking
79(1)
Doing Environmental Science
80(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
80(1)
Data Analysis
81(1)
5 Species Interactions, Ecological Succession, and Population Control
82(18)
Key Questions
82(2)
Core Case Study The Southern Sea Otter: A Species in Recovery
84(1)
5.1 How Do Species Interact?
85(4)
Science Focus Threats to Kelp Forests
86(3)
5.2 How Do Communities and Ecosystems Respond to Changing Environmental Conditions?
89(2)
5.3 What Limits the Growth of Populations?
91(9)
Science Focus Why Do California's Southern Sea Otters Face an Uncertain Future?
95(2)
Tying it all Together
97(1)
Chapter Review
97(1)
Critical Thinking
98(1)
Doing Environmental Science
98(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
99(1)
Data Analysis
99(1)
6 The Human Population and Urbanization
100(28)
Key Questions
100(2)
Core Case Study Portland, Oregon: On a Quest for Urban Sustainability
102(1)
6.1 How Many People Can the Earth Support?
103(1)
Science Focus How Long Can the Human Population Keep Growing?
104(1)
6.2 What Factors Influence the Size of the Human Population?
104(4)
Case Study The U.S. Population---Third Largest and Growing
105(3)
6.3 How Does a Population's Age Structure Affect Its Growth or Decline?
108(2)
Case Study The American Baby Boom
109(1)
6.4 What Are Some Ways to Slow Human Population Growth?
110(4)
Case Study Slowing Population Growth in India
112(1)
Case Study Slowing Population Growth in China
113(1)
6.5 What Are the Major Urban Resource and Environmental Problems?
114(5)
Case Study Urbanization in the United States
115(4)
Case Study Mexico City
119(1)
6.6 How Does Transportation Affect Urban Environmental Impacts?
119(3)
6.7 How Can Cities Become More Sustainable and Livable?
122(6)
Case Study The Eco-City Concept in Curitiba, Brazil
123(1)
Tying it all Together
124(1)
Chapter Review
125(1)
Critical Thinking
126(1)
Doing Environmental Science
126(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
127(1)
Data Analysis
127(1)
7 Climate and Biodiversity
128(32)
Key Questions
128(2)
Core Case Study Why Should We Care about Coral Reefs?
130(1)
7.1 What Factors Influence Climate?
131(4)
7.2 What Are the World's Major Terrestrial Ecosystems and How Are Human Activities Affecting Them?
135(11)
Science Focus Staying Alive in the Desert
139(7)
7.3 What Are the Major Types of Marine Aquatic Systems and How Are Human Activities Affecting Them?
146(6)
Case Study Revisiting Coral Reefs---Amazing Centers of Biodiversity
147(5)
7.4 What Are the Major Types of Freshwater Systems and How Are Human Activities Affecting Them?
152(8)
Individuals Matter
Alexandra Cousteau: Environmental Storyteller and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
156(1)
Tying it all Together
157(1)
Chapter Review
157(1)
Critical Thinking
158(1)
Doing Environmental Science
159(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
159(1)
Data Analysis
159(1)
SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY
8 Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species and Ecosystem Services
160(24)
Key Questions
160(2)
Core Case Study Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?
162(1)
8.1 What Role Do Humans Play in the Loss of Species and Ecosystem Services?
163(2)
Science Focus Estimating Extinction Rates
164(1)
8.2 Why Should We Try to Sustain Wild Species and the Ecosystem Services They Provide?
165(2)
8.3 How Do Humans Accelerate Species Extinction and Degradation of Ecosystem Services?
167(9)
Science Focus Honeybee Losses: A Search for Causes
172(3)
Case Study A Disturbing Message from the Birds
175(1)
Individuals Matter
Cagan Hakki ekerciolu: Protector of Birds and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
176(1)
8.4 How Can We Sustain Wild Species and the Ecosystem Services They Provide?
176(8)
Case Study The U.S. Endangered Species Act
177(4)
Tying it all Together
181(1)
Chapter Review
181(1)
Critical Thinking
182(1)
Doing Environmental Science
183(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
183(1)
Data Analysis
183(1)
9 Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services
184(30)
Key Questions
184(2)
Core Case Study Costa Rica---A Global Conservation Leader
186(1)
9.1 What Are the Major Threats to Forest Ecosystems?
187(6)
Science Focus Putting a Price Tag on Nature's Ecosystem Services
188(2)
Case Study Many Cleared Forests in the United States Have Grown Back
190(3)
9.2 How Should We Manage and Sustain Forests?
193(3)
9.3 How Should We Manage and Sustain Grasslands?
196(1)
9.4 How Should We Manage and Sustain Parks and Nature Reserves?
197(4)
Case Study Stresses on U.S. Public Parks
197(1)
Science Focus Reintroducing the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone National Park
198(1)
Case Study Identifying and Protecting Biodiversity in Costa Rica
199(2)
9.5 What Is the Ecosystem Approach to Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services?
201(3)
Case Study Ecological Restoration of a Tropical Dry Forest in Costa Rica
203(1)
9.6 How Can We Help to Sustain Aquatic Biodiversity?
204(10)
Science Focus Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem
206(3)
Individuals Matter
Sylvia Earle---Advocate for the Oceans
209(1)
Tying it all Together
210(1)
Chapter Review
211(1)
Critical Thinking
212(1)
Doing Environmental Science
212(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
212(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
213(1)
SUSTAINING RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
10 Food Production and the Environment
214(34)
Key Questions
214(2)
Core Case Study Growing Power---An Urban Food Oasis
216(1)
10.1 What Is Food Security and Why Is It Difficult to Attain?
217(1)
10.2 How Is Food Produced?
218(5)
Case Study Industrialized Food Production in the United States
220(3)
10.3 What Environmental Problems Arise from Industrialized Food Production?
223(8)
Science Focus Soil Is the Foundation of Life on Land
226(5)
10.4 How Can We Protect Crops from Pests More Sustainably?
231(5)
Case Study Ecological Surprises: The Law of Unintended Consequences
233(3)
10.5 How Can We Improve Food Security?
236(2)
Individuals Matter
Jennifer Burney: Environmental Scientist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
237(1)
10.6 How Can We Produce Food More Sustainably?
238(10)
Case Study Soil Erosion in the United States
238(5)
Science Focus Perennial Polyculture and the Land Institute
243(1)
Tying it all Together
244(1)
Chapter Review
245(1)
Critical Thinking
246(1)
Doing Environmental Science
246(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
246(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
247(1)
11 Water Resources and Water Pollution
248(40)
Key Questions
248(2)
Core Case Study The Colorado
River Story
250(1)
11.1 Will We Have Enough Usable Water?
251(4)
Case Study Freshwater Resources in the United States
253(2)
11.2 How Can We Increase Freshwater Supplies?
255(7)
Case Study Aquifer Depletion in the United States
256(3)
Case Study How Dams Can Kill an Estuary
259(2)
Case Study The Aral Sea Disaster: A Glaring Example of Unintended Consequences
261(1)
11.3 How Can We Use Freshwater More Sustainably?
262(6)
Individuals Matter
Sandra Postel: National Geographic Fellow and Freshwater Conservationist
268(1)
11.4 How Can We Deal with Water Pollution?
268(20)
Case Study Is Bottled Water a Good Option?
275(3)
Science Focus The Gulf of Mexico's Annual Dead Zone
278(4)
Science Focus Treating Sewage by Working with Nature
282(2)
Tying it all Together
284(1)
Chapter Review
285(1)
Critical Thinking
286(1)
Doing Environmental Science
287(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
287(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
287(1)
12 Geology and Nonrenewable Mineral Resources
288(24)
Key Questions
288(2)
Core Case Study The Crucial Importance of Rare Earth Metals
290(1)
12.1 What Are the Earth's Major Geological Processes and What Are Mineral Resources?
291(2)
12.2 How Long Might Supplies of Nonrenewable Mineral Resources Last?
293(3)
Case Study Global and U.S. Rare Earth Supplies
294(2)
12.3 What Are the Environmental Effects of Using Nonrenewable Mineral Resources?
296(5)
Case Study The Real Cost of Gold
299(1)
Science Focus The Nanotechnology Revolution
300(1)
12.4 How Can We Use Mineral Resources More Sustainably?
301(3)
Science Focus Graphene: A Revolutionary Material
302(1)
Individuals Matter
Yu-Guo Guo: Designer of Nanotechnology Batteries and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
303(1)
12.5 What Are the Earth's Major Geological Hazards?
304(8)
Tying it all Together
309(1)
Chapter Review
310(1)
Critical Thinking
310(1)
Doing Environmental Science
311(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
311(1)
Data Analysis
311(1)
13 Energy Resources
312(46)
Key Questions
312(2)
Core Case Study The Astounding Potential for Wind Power in the United States
314(1)
13.1 What Is Net Energy and Why Is It Important?
315(1)
13.2 What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Fossil Fuels?
316(11)
Science Focus Removing Tightly Held Oil and Natural Gas by Drilling Sideways and Fracking
318(1)
Case Study Oil Production and Consumption in the United States
319(3)
Case Study Natural Gas Production and Fracking in the United States
322(5)
13.3 What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Nuclear Power?
327(5)
Case Study The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident in Japan
331(1)
13.4 Why Is Energy Efficiency an Important Energy Resource?
332(8)
Science Focus The Search for Better Batteries
336(4)
13.5 What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Renewable Energy Resources?
340(12)
Individuals Matter
Andrs Ruzo---Geothermal Energy Sleuth and National Geographic Young Explorer
351(1)
13.6 How Can We Make the Transition to a More Sustainable Energy Future?
352(6)
Tying it all Together
354(1)
Chapter Review
354(2)
Critical Thinking
356(1)
Doing Environmental Science
356(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
357(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
357(1)
14 Environmental Hazards and Human Health
358(28)
Key Questions
358(2)
Core Case Study Mercury's Toxic Effects
360(1)
14.1 What Major Health Hazards Do We Face?
361(1)
14.2 What Types of Biological Hazards Do We Face?
361(8)
Science Focus Genetic Resistance to Antibiotics Is Increasing
362(1)
Case Study The Global Threat from Tuberculosis
362(3)
Individuals Matter
Hayat Sindi: Science Entrepreneur and National Geographic Emerging Explorer
365(1)
Case Study The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
365(1)
Case Study Malaria---The Spread of a Deadly Parasite
366(3)
14.3 What Types of Chemical Hazards Do We Face?
369(3)
Science Focus The Controversy over BPA
370(2)
14.4 How Can We Evaluate Chemical Hazards?
372(5)
Case Study Pollution Prevention Pays
376(1)
14.5 How Do We Perceive Risks and How Can We Avoid the Worst of Them?
377(9)
Case Study Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes
379(3)
Tying it all Together
382(1)
Chapter Review
382(1)
Critical Thinking
383(1)
Doing Environmental Science
384(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
385(1)
Data Analysis
385(1)
15 Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion
386(42)
Key Questions
386(2)
Core Case Study Melting Ice in Greenland
388(1)
15.1 What Is the Nature of the Atmosphere?
389(1)
15.2 What Are the Major Air Pollution Problems?
389(10)
15.3 How Should We Deal with Air Pollution?
399(3)
15.4 How Might the Earth's Climate Change in the Future?
402(8)
Science Focus Using Models to Project Future Changes in Atmospheric Temperatures
408(2)
15.5 What Are Some Possible Effects of a Warmer Atmosphere?
410(4)
15.6 What Can We Do to Slow Projected Climate Change?
414(7)
15.7 How Have We Depleted Ozone in the Stratosphere and What Can We Do about It?
421(7)
Individuals Matter
Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina---A Scientific Story of Expertise, Courage, and Persistence
423(2)
Tying it all Together
425(1)
Chapter Review
425(1)
Critical Thinking
426(1)
Doing Environmental Science
427(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
427(1)
Data Analysis
427(1)
16 Solid and Hazardous Waste
428(24)
Key Questions
428(2)
Core Case Study E-Waste---An Exploding Problem
430(1)
16.1 What Are the Problems Related to Solid and Hazardous Wastes?
431(2)
Case Study Solid Waste in the United States
431(2)
16.2 How Should We Deal with Solid Waste?
433(2)
16.3 Why Are Refusing, Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling So Important?
435(4)
Case Study Ocean Garbage Patches: There Is No Away
436(1)
Individuals Matter
Mike Biddle's Contribution to Plastics Recycling
437(1)
Science Focus Bioplastics
438(1)
16.4 What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Burning or Burying Solid Waste?
439(3)
16.5 How Should We Deal with Hazardous Waste?
442(4)
Case Study Recycling E-Waste
442(3)
Case Study Hazardous Waste Regulation in the United States
445(1)
16.6 How Can We Make the Transition to a More Sustainable Low-Waste Economy?
446(6)
Case Study Industrial Ecosystems: Copying Nature
447(2)
Tying it all Together
449(1)
Chapter Review
449(1)
Critical Thinking
450(1)
Doing Environmental Science
451(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
451(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
451(1)
SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES
17 Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews
452
Key Questions
452(2)
Core Case Study The United States, China, and Sustainability
454(1)
17.1 How Are Economic Systems Related to the Biosphere?
455(2)
17.2 How Can We Use Economic Tools to Deal with Environmental Problems?
457(8)
Case Study Microlending
462(3)
Individuals Matter
Ray Anderson
465(1)
17.3 How Can We Implement More Sustainable and Just Environmental Policies?
465(9)
Case Study Managing Public Lands in the United States---Politics in Action
466(5)
Case Study U.S. Environmental Laws and Regulations
471(3)
17.4 What Are Some Major Environmental Worldviews?
474(2)
Science Focus Biosphere 2---A Lesson in Humility
475(1)
17.5 How Can We Live More Sustainably?
476(3)
Individuals Matter
Lester R. Brown: Champion of Sustainability
479(2)
Tying it all Together
481(1)
Chapter Review
481(1)
Critical Thinking
482(1)
Doing Environmental Science
483(1)
Global Environment Watch Exercise
483(1)
Ecological Footprint Analysis
483
SUPPLEMENTS
1 Measurement Units
1(1)
2 Reading Graphs and Maps
2(3)
3 Some Basic Chemistry
5(9)
4 Maps and Map Analysis
14(25)
5 Environmental Data and Data Analysis
39(10)
6 Geologic and Biological Time Scale
49(1)
7 Principles of Sustainability
50
Glossary 1(1)
Index 1