ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Sudbury, Mass Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010
• Edition: EIGHTH EDITION
• Subjects: Environmental sciences
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxiv, 632 pages colour illustrations, colour maps 28 cm
• ISBN: 9780763759254; 0763759252

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE COURSES VARY WIDELY. Some profes sors prefer to discuss basic science before they delve into environmental issues such as air pollution, water pollution, global climate change, species, and extinction. Other pro fessors focus closely on the main issues. In between these two approaches are a wide range of options. This book is meant to serve these diverse approaches of professors. Like other textbooks on the subject, this one presents the basic science needed to understand environ mental issues. It also offers an in-depth look at all of the en vironmental problems facing the world. This book discusses solutions to environmental issues, including the more tra ditional ones and a new generation of policies and actions that promise to achieve lasting results. They are solutions that involve all stakeholders: businesses, governments, and in dividuals. During the nearly three decades I have spent working on this book, it has evolved dramatically in response to pro found changes in my thinking. Perhaps the most important change has been the shift toward a more comprehensive and more systematic way of viewing environmental problems. One of the useful discoveries I and numerous others have made over many years of study is that most environmental prob lems spring from a common set of root causes. Unlike other books, this one discusses the common root causes and ways to address them.