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ISBN: 9780534496722 | 0534496725
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Copyright: 10/12/2004

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Part I: HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW. 1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability. 2. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews. Part II: SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS. 3. Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems: Connections in Nature. 4. Evolution and Biodiversity. 5. Community Ecology, Population Ecology, and Sustainability. 6. Applying Population Ecology: The Human Population. Part III: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY. 7. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach. 8. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach. Part IV: SUSTAINING KEY RESOURCES. 9. Food and Soil Resources. 10. Water Resources and Water Pollution. 11. Energy Resources. Part V: SUSTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. 12. Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health. 13. Climate Change, Ozone Loss, and Air Pollution. 14. Solid and Hazardous Waste.

Introduction

(4)

PART I: HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW

Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

(11)

Living More Sustainability

(1)

Population Growth, Economic Growth, and Economic Development

(1)

Resources

(3)

Case Study: The Tragedy of the Commons--Degrading Free Renewable Resources

(2)

Pollution

(1)

Environmental Problems: Causes and Connections

(3)

Is Our Present Course Sustainable?

(2)

PART II: SCIENCE AND ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems: Connections in Nature

(30)

The Nature of Science

(2)

Matter and Energy

(6)

Earth's Life-Support Systems: From Organisms to the Biosphere

(6)

Case Study: What Species Rule the World? Small Matters

(1)

Case Study: Have You Thanked the Insects Today?

(6)

Energy Flow in Ecosystems

(5)

Soils

(3)

Matter Cycling in Ecosystems

(8)

Evolution and Biodiversity

(17)

Evolution and Adaptation

(2)

Ecological Niches and Adaptation

(2)

Spotlight: Cockroaches: Nature's Ultimate Survivors

(2)

Speciation, Extinction, and Biodiversity

(2)

What Is the Future of Evolution?

(2)

Biomes: Climate and Life on Land

(4)

Life in Water Environments

(5)

Community Ecology, Population Ecology, and Sustainability

(14)

Types of Species

(3)

Case Study: Why Are Amphibians Vanishing? Warnings from Frogs

(2)

Case Study: Why Are Sharks Important Species? Culling the Ocean and Helping Improve Human Health

(1)

Species Interactions

(2)

Ecological Succession: Communities in Transition

(2)

Population Dynamics and Carrying Capacity

(2)

Human Impacts on Natural Systems: Learning from Nature

(5)

Connections: Ecological Surprises

(2)

Applying Population Ecology: The Human Population

(24)

Factors Affecting Human Population Size

(5)

Case Study: Should the United States Encourage or Discourage Immigration? An Important Issue

(1)

Population Age Structure

(2)

Solutions: Influencing Population Size

(3)

Case Studies: India and China

(2)

Population Distribution: Urban Growth and Problems

(3)

Urban Environmental and Resource Problems

(2)

Case Study: How Do the Urban Poor in Developing Countries Live? Life on the Edge with Ingenuity and Hope

(1)

Transportation and Urban Development

(3)

Making Urban Areas More Livable and Sustainable

(4)

Case Study: How Has Curitiba, Brazil, Become One of the World's Most Sustainable Major Cities? Innovative Solutions to Urban Problems

(2)

PART III: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach

101

(25)

Human Impacts on Biodiversity

101

(2)

Public Lands in the United States

103

(2)

Case Study: How Should U.S. Public Lands Be Managed? An Ongoing Controversy

103

(2)

Managing and Sustaining Forests

105

(5)

Forest Resources and Management in the United States

110

(2)

Case Study: How Should U.S. National Forests Be Managed? Another Controversy

110

(1)

Individuals Matter: Butterfly in a Redwood Tree

111

(1)

Tropical Deforestation

112

(3)

Individuals Matter: Kenya's Green Belt Movement

115

(1)

National Parks

115

(2)

Case Study: National Parks in the United States

115

(1)

Case Study: Reintroducing Wolves to Yellowstone

116

(1)

Nature Reserves

117

(4)

Case Study: What Has Costa Rica Done to Protect Some of Its Land from Degradation? A Global Conservation Leader

118

(2)

Case Study: How Much Wilderness Has Been Protected in the United States? Fighting for Crumbs and Losing

120

(1)

Ecological Restoration

121

(1)

Case Study: Ecological Restoration of a Tropical Dry Forest in Costa Rica

122

(1)

Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity

122

(2)

What Can We Do?

124

(2)

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

126

(20)

Species Extinction

126

(4)

Case Study: The Passenger Pigeon: Gone Forever

126

(4)

Importance of Wild Species?

130

(2)

Case Study: Why Should We Care about Bats? Ecological Allies

131

(1)

Causes of Premature Extinction of Wild Species

132

(7)

Case Study: How Do Human Activities Affect Bird Species? A Disturbing Message from the Birds

134

(3)

Case Study: The Termite from Hell

137

(2)

Protecting Wild Species: The Legal Approach

139

(3)

Protecting Wild Species: The Sanctuary Approach

142

(1)

Case Study: What Has the Endangered Species Act Accomplished?

142

(1)

Reconciliation Ecology

143

(3)

Case Study: Using Reconciliation Ecology to Protect Bluebirds

144

(2)

PART IV: SUSTAINING KEY RESOURCES

Food, Soil, and Pest Management

146

(25)

How Is Food Produced

146

(4)

Case Study: Industrial Food Production in the United States: A Success Story

149

(1)

Soil Erosion and Degradation

150

(2)

Case Study: How Fast Is Soil Eroding in the United States? Some Hopeful News

150

(2)

Soil Conservation

152

(2)

Food Production, Nutrition, and Environmental Effects

154

(2)

Increasing Crop Production

156

(8)

Connections: Some Environmental Consequences of Meat Production

160

(4)

Protecting Food Resources: Pest Management

164

(5)

Individuals Matter: Rachel Carson

165

(1)

Spotlight: How Successful Have Synthetic Pesticides been in Reducing Crop Losses in the United States?

166

(1)

Connections: What Goes Around Can Come Around

167

(2)

Solutions: Sustainable Agriculture

169

(2)

Water Resources and Water Pollution

171

(30)

Water's Importance, Use, and Renewal

171

(3)

Case Study: Freshwater Resources in the United States

173

(1)

Water Resource Problems: Too Little Water and Too Much Water

174

(4)

Case Study: Water Conflicts in the Middle East--A Growing Problem

175

(1)

Case Study: Living on Floodplains in Bangladesh--Danger for the Poor

176

(2)

Supplying More Water

178

(4)

Case Study: The California Water Transfer Project--Bringing Water to a Desert

179

(1)

Case Study: The Aral Sea Disaster---A Glaring Example of Unintended Consequences

180

(2)

Reducing Water Waste

182

(4)

Types, Effects, and Sources of Water Pollution

186

(1)

Pollution of Freshwater Streams, Lakes, and Aquifers

187

(5)

Case Study: Pollution in the Great Lakes---Hopeful Progress

190

(2)

Ocean Pollution

192

(3)

Case Study: The Chesapeake Bay---An Estuary in Trouble

192

(3)

Preventing and Reducing Surface Water Pollution

195

(3)

Case Study: How Successful Has the United States Been in Reducing Water Pollution from Point Sources? Good and Bad News

197

(1)

Solutions: Using Wetlands to Treat Sewage

198

(1)

Drinking Water Quality

198

(3)

Case Study: Is Bottled Water the Answer? Solution or Expensive Rip-off?

199

(2)

Energy

201

(37)

Evaluating Energy Resources

201

(3)

Nonrenewable Fossil Fuels

204

(7)

Nonrenewable Nuclear Energy

211

(9)

Case Study: What Happened to Nuclear Power? A Fading Dream

213

(2)

Case Study: What Should We Do with High-Level Radioactive Waste? A Dangerous and Long-Lasting, Unintended Consequence

215

(1)

Case Study: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident

216

(1)

Case Study: What Should the United States Do with Its High-Level Radioactive Wastes? Controversy over Desert Burial

217

(3)

Improving Energy Efficiency

220

(5)

Case Study: Are Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Cars the Answer? New Options

222

(3)

Using Renewable Energy to Provide Heat and Electricity

225

(7)

Geothermal Energy

232

(1)

Hydrogen

232

(2)

A Sustainable Energy Strategy

234

(4)

Individuals Matter: Producing Hydrogen from Green Algae Found in Pond Scum

235

(3)

PART V: SUSTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health

238

(15)

Risks and Hazards

238

(1)

Case Study: What Is the Biggest Killer? Puffing Life Away

238

(1)

Toxicology: Assessing Chemical Hazards

239

(3)

Chemical Hazards

242

(2)

Case Study: What Effects Can Some Chemicals Have on Immune, Nervous, and Endocrine Systems? Possible Harm from Small Doses

243

(1)

Biological Hazards: Disease in Developed and Developing Countries

244

(4)

Case Study: Are We Losing Ground in Our Struggle against Infectious Bacteria? Growing Germ Resistance to Antibiotics

244

(1)

Case Study: The Global Tuberculosis Epidemic--A Growing Threat

245

(1)

Case Study: How Serious Is the Global Threat from HIV and AIDS? A Rapidly Growing Threat

246

(1)

Case Study: Malaria: A Deadly Parasitic Disease That Is Making a Comeback

247

(1)

Risk Analysis

248

(5)

Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Air Pollution

253

(34)

Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate

253

(3)

Climate Change: How Serious Is the Threat?

256

(4)

Factors Affecting the Earth's Temperature

260

(2)

Possible Effects of a Warmer World

262

(2)

Dealing with the Threat of Global Warming

264

(5)

Ozone Depletion in the Stratosphere

269

(3)

Protecting the Ozone Layer

272

(1)

Individuals Matter: Ray Turner and His Refrigerator

272

(1)

Types and Sources of Air Pollution

273

(8)

Case Study: Are You Being Exposed to Radioactive Radon Gas? Test the Air in Your House

281

(1)

Harmful Effects of Air Pollution

281

(1)

Preventing and Reducing Air Pollution

282

(5)

Case Study: Should We Use the Marketplace to Reduce Pollution? Emissions Trading

283

(4)

Solid and Hazardous Waste

287

(20)

Wasting Resources

287

(1)

Case Study: How Much Solid Waste Does the United States Produce? Affluenza in Action

287

(1)

Producing Less Waste

288

(1)

The Ecoindustrial Revolution and Selling Services Instead of Things

289

(3)

Individuals Matter: Ray Anderson

291

(1)

Reuse

292

(1)

Recycling

293

(3)

Case Study: Is It Feasible to Recycle Plastics? Some Problems

295

(1)

Burning and Burying Solid Waste

296

(2)

Hazardous Waste

298

(4)

Case Study: Lead

302

(1)

Achieving a Low-Waste Society

303

(4)

PART VI: SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES

Economics, Politics, Worldviews, and the Environment

307

Economic Resources and Environmental Problems

307

(2)

Using Economics to Improve Environmental Quality

309

(4)

Reducing Poverty to Improve Environmental Quality and Human Well-Being

313

(1)

Solutions: Microloans to the Poor

314

(1)

Politics and Environmental Policy

315

(3)

Case Study: How Is Environmental Policy Made in the United States? A Complicated and Thorny Process

318

(2)

Case Study: Environmental Action by Students in the United States--Making a Difference

320

(1)

Global Environmental Policy

321

(2)

Environmental Worldviews and Ethics: Clashing Values and Cultures

323

(1)

Living More Sustainably

324

Appendixes

1 Units of Measurement

(2)

2 Major Events in U.S. Environmental History

(6)

3 Brief History of the Age of Oil

Glossary

(1)

Index

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