Miller G. Tyler

Environmental science problems, concepts and solutions. / G.Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman - 12th ed. - Australia: Cengage learning, c2008. - xxi, 430 p+various pagings, ill.; 27cm.

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.

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Enviromental Science

GE105.M58