Annual Editions : Environment 04/05

This 23rd edition of Annual Editions: Environment 04/05 is a compilation of current articles from the best of the public press. The selections explore the global environment, the world's population, energy, the biosphere, natural resources, and pollution. A listing of related Web sites is included and access to the student support site Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online).

To the Reader

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Topic Guide

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Selected World Wide Web Sites

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UNIT 1 The Global Environment: An Emerging World View

Unit Overview

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How Many Planets? A Survey of the Global Environment, The Economist, July 6, 2002

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(17)

Forget Nature. Even Eden Is Engineered

19

(7)

Andrew C. Revkin

Crimes of (a) Global Nature

26

(11)

Lisa Mastny

Hilary French

Toward a Sustainability Transition: The International Consensus

37

(10)

Thomas M. Parris

Making the Global Local: Responding to Climate Change Concerns From the Ground Up

47

(12)

Robert W. Kates

Thomas J. Wilbanks

UNIT 2 Population, Policy, and Economy

Unit Overview

56

(3)

Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know

59

(7)

Robert W. Kates

An Economy for the Earth

66

(4)

Lester R. Brown

Factory Farming in the Developing World

70

(5)

Danielle Nierenberg

Common Ground for Farmers and Forests

75

(4)

Joyce Gregory Wyels

Where the Sidewalks End

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(10)

Molly O'Meara Sheehan

UNIT 3 Energy: Present and Future Problems

Unit Overview

87

(2)

Beyond Oil: The Future of Energy

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(8)

Fred Guterl

Adam Piore

William Underhill

Powder Keg

97

(4)

Keith Kloor

Living Without Oil

101

(6)

Marianne Lavelle

Renewable Energy: A Viable Choice

107

(11)

Antonia V. Herzog

Timothy E. Lipman

Jennifer L. Edwards

Daniel M. Kammen

Fossil Fuels and Energy Independence

118

(6)

B. Samuel Tanenbaum

UNIT 4 Biosphere: Endangered Species

Unit Overview

122

(2)

What Is Nature Worth?

124

(10)

Edward O. Wilson

Where Wildlife Rules

134

(4)

Frank Graham Jr.

Invasive Species: Pathogens of Globalization

138

(6)

Christopher Bright

On the Termination of Species

144

(11)

W. Wayt Gibbs

UNIT 5 Resources: Land and Water

Unit Overview

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(3)

Where Have All the Farmers Gone?

155

(13)

Brian Halweil

What's a River For?

168

(5)

Bruce Barcott

A Human Thirst

173

(4)

Don Hinrichsen

Our Perilous Dependence on Groundwater

177

(4)

Marc J. Defant

Oceans Are on the Critical List

181

(8)

Anne Platt McGinn

UNIT 6 The Hazards of Growth: Polution and Climate Change

Unit Overview

186

(3)

Three Pollutants and an Emission

189

(4)

Dallas Burtraw

The Quest for Clean Water

193

(4)

Joseph Orlins

Anne Wehrly

Solving Hazy Mysteries

197

(3)

Sid Perkins

Feeling the Heat: Life in the Greenhouse

200

(5)

Michael D. Lemonick

Environmental Information Retrieval

205

(8)

Glossary

213

(6)

Index

219

(3)

Test Your Knowledge Form

222

(1)

Article Rating Form

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