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Environmental science : working with the earth / G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

By: Miller, G. Tyler Jr [author].

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BookPublisher: Pacific Grove, California : Thomson Brooks/Cole, [2004]Edition: Tenth edition.Description: xxiv, 538 pages : illustrations (chiefly color).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0534424074.Subject(s): Environmental sciences | Human ecology | Environmental protectionGenre/Form:

Contents:

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, systems, matter, and energy

4. Ecosystems : components, energy flow, and matter cycling

5. Evolution and biodiversity : origins, niches, and adaptation

6. Climate, terrestrial biodiversity, and aquatic biodiversity

7. Community ecology : structure, species interactions, succession, and sustainability

8. Population dynamics, carrying capacity, and conservation biology

9. Environmental geology : processes, minerals, and soils

10. Risk, toxicology, and human health

Part III. Population, resources, and sustainability

11. The human population : growth and distribution

12. Air and air pollution

13. Climate change and ozone loss

14. Water resources and water pollution

15. Solid and hazardous waste

Part IV. Sustaining biodiversity

16. Food resources

17. Sustaining biodiversity : the ecosystem approach

18. Sustaining biodiversity : the species approach

Part V. Energy resources

19. Nonrenewable energy resources

20. Energy efficiency and renewable energy

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Includes index.

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Reference	R 363.7 M648e 2004 (Browse shelf)	Room use only		19376QC

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