Resources of the Earth: Origin, Use, and Environmental Impact - Hardcover

Craig, James R.; Vaughan, David J.; Skinner, Brian J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130834106 ISBN 13: 9780130834102

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Earth's Resources in departments of geology or earth science.

Balanced, broad-based, and up-to-date, this text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment.

About this title

Synopsis:

Extensively illustrated and up-to-date, this book explores the nature and critical issues of all major types of earth resources - energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water and soil - and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. It provides geologic background of resource formation and occurrence of most of the various types of resources; offers an international perspective; discusses resources not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the point of economic, political, historical considerations; and considers how the extraction and use of the resources creates impacts - local or global, immediate or delayed, visible or invisible and singular or cumulative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130834106
• ISBN 13: 9780130834102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 520