Environmental Science 5e: Systems and Solutions - Softcover

McKinney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449661394 ISBN 13: 9781449661397

Publisher: Johns and Bartlett, 2012

Synopsis

Updated with the latest data from the field, Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Fifth Edition explains the concepts and teaches the skills needed to understand multi-faceted, and often very complex environmental issues. The authors present the arguments, rebuttals, evidence, and counterevidence from many sides of the debate. The Fifth Edition includes new Science in Action boxes which feature cutting-edge case studies and essays, contributed by subject matter experts, that highlight recent and ongoing research within environmental science. With an "Earth as a system" approach the text continues to emphasize Earth's intricate web of interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere, and how we are central components in these four spheres. This flexible, unbiased approach highlights: 1. how matter cycles over time through Earth's systems 2. the importance of the input-throughput-output processes that describe the global environment 3. how human activities and consumption modify Earth's systems 4. and the scientific, economic, and policy solutions to environmental problems

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns and Bartlett
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1449661394
• ISBN 13: 9781449661397
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 696