Environmental Science
Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet
Available from the publisher at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470049901.html
With coauthor and geologist, Edward A. Keller, this textbook just appeared in its sixth edition. It is an award-winning text, elected the best textbook of 2004 by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association. For a number of years, the Environmental Literacy Council of Washington, D. C. listed it as the only acceptable environmental science textbook, based on a review of all such texts by a group of leading environmental scientists.
Earth as a Living Planet attempts to teach the student how to think, not what to think.
It is one of the few undergraduate science textbooks with a special chapter on the scientific method, and this chapter alone has been used in a variety of other courses than environmental science.
Table of contents:
1. Key Themes in Environmental Science.2. Science as a Way of Knowing: Critical Thinking about the Environment.
3. The Big Picture: Systems of Change.
4. The Human Population and the Environment.
5. The Biogeochemical Cycles.
6. Ecosystems and Ecosystem Management.
7. Biological Diversity.
8. Biogeography.
9. Biological Productivity and Energy Flow.
10. Ecological Restoration.
11. Producing Enough Food for the World: How Agriculture Depends on Environment.
12. Effects of Agriculture on the Environment.
13.Forests, Parks, and Landscapes.
14. Wildlife, Fisheries, and Endangered Species.
15. Environmental Health, Pollution, and Toxicology.
16. Natural Disasters and Catastrophe
17. Energy: Some Basics.
18. Fossil Fuels and the Environment.
19. Alternative Energy and the Environment.
20. Nuclear Energy and the Environment.
21. Water Supply, Use, and Management.
22. Water Pollution and Treatment.
23. The Atmosphere, Climate, and Global Warming.
24. Air Pollution.
25. Indoor Air Pollution.
26. Ozone Depletion.
27. Minerals and the Environment.
28. Dollars and Environmental Sense: Economics of Environment Issues.
29. Urban Environments.
30. Waste Management.