Includes index

Contents: Humans and sustainability: an overview: Environmental problems, their causes, and sustainability -- Ecology and sustainability: Science, matter, and energy -- Ecosystems: what are they and how do they work? -- Evolution and biodiversity -- Climate and biodiversity -- Community and population ecology -- Applying population ecology: human population and urbanization -- Sustaining biodiversity: Sustaining biodiversity: the ecosystem approach -- Sustaining biodiversity: the species approach -- Sustaining resources and environmental quality: Food, soil, and pest management -- Water and water pollution -- Geology and nonrenewable mineral resources -- Energy -- Environmental hazards and human health -- Air pollution, climate change, and ozone depletion -- Solid and hazardous waste -- Sustaining human societies: Environmental economics, politics, and worldviews.