Environmental Science A GLOBAL CONCERN

• Main Authors: Cunningham, William P. (Author), Cunningham, Marry Ann (Author), Saigo, Barbara Woodworth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston McGraw Hill 2005
• Edition: Eighth Edition
• Subjects: Environmental sciences
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxiv, 600 pages colour illustrations, colour maps 29 cm
• ISBN: 0072439564; 0072951729; 9780072951721

We face a rising epidemic of global environmental problems: global warming, diminishing biodiversity, growing shortages in freshwater supplies, long range transport of air pollutants and accumulation of persistent organic compounds in food webs, to mention just a few. To combat these problems and to find ways to prevent others from occurring, we need an environmentally informed citizenry. The purpose of this book is to provide an inter esting, accessible introduction to environmental science for students from a variety of backgrounds. Combining a broad, inter disciplinary approach that includes both natural sciences and human dimensions of environmental issues, this book integrates information from many different areas in a way that is accessible and useful to students from any field of study.