ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE The Way the World Works
Environmental science is about much more than science. Environmental science is also about ethics and values, sociology and politics, law and business, motivation and responsibility. Most of all, environmental science is about life and how to sustain it on Planet dev Earth. The ecological and enviro...
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Prentice Hall
1993
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Environmental Science The Way the World Works 
Environmental science the way the world works