ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 13E

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE will inspire and equip you to make a difference for the world. Featuring sustainability as their central theme, authors Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman emphasize natural capital, natural capital degradation, solutions, trade-offs, and the importance of individuals. As a result, you will learn how nature works, how you interact with it, and how people have sustained—and can continue to sustain—our relationship with the earth by applying nature's lessons to economies and individual lifestyles. Engaging features like "Core Case Studies," "How Would You Vote" questions, and "Thinking About" exercises demonstrate the relevance of issues and encourage critical thinking. This edition has been updated with new learning tools, the latest content, and an enhanced art program.

HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW.

1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability.

ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY.

2. Science, Matter, and Energy.

3. Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

4. Evolution and Biodiversity.

5. Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control.

6. The Human Population and Urbanization.

7. Climate and Biodiversity.

SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY.

8. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach.

9. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach.

SUSTAINING RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

10. Food, Soil, and Pest Management.

11. Water Resources and Water Pollution.

12. Geology and Nonrenewable Minerals.

13. Energy.

14. Environmental Hazards and Human Health.

15. Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion.

16. Solid and Hazardous Waste.

SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES.

17. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews.

SUPPLEMENTS.

Glossary.

Index.