Principles of Environmental Science
© 2011Chapter 1: Understanding Our Environment
Chapter 2: Environmental Systems: Connections, Cycles, Flows, and Feedback Loops
Chapter 3: Evolution, Species Interactions, and Biological Communities
Chapter 4: Human Populations
Chapter 5: Biomes and Biodiversity
Chapter 6: Environmental Conservation: Forests, Grasslands, Parks, and Nature Preserves
Chapter 7: Food and Agriculture
Chapter 8: Environmental Health and Toxicology
Chapter 9: Air: Climate and Pollution
Chapter 10: Water: Resources and Pollution
Chapter 11: Environmental Geology and Earth Resources
Chapter 12: Energy
Chapter 13: Solid and Hazardous Waste
Chapter 14: Economics and Urbanization
Chapter 15: Environmental Policy and Sustainability
An exciting new feature in this edition are Google Earth placemarks located in every chapter. Google Earth is an online program that provides interactive satellite imagery of the earth and will help students understand the geographic context of places and topics in the text.
Numerous new photos have been added throughout the text to depict real-life situations. Several illustrations, graphs, and charts are new or revised to present realistic and current information in a form that is easier to comprehend than if that same material were presented in text.
Each chapter opens with "Learning Outcomes? that will help students organize study priorities. Rather than being imperative requirements, these objectives have been changed to more active questions that lead rather than command.
Because few of us learn effectively without an opportunity to actively apply new ideas, Active Learning boxes have been included throughout the text. These boxes provide a break in reading and invite students to practice or apply skills they have just learned. In addition, ?What can you do?" boxes in nearly every chapter suggest practical things that individuals can do to help improve environmental quality and resource conservation.
Updated End-of-Chapter Tools:
Data Analysis Exercises. Because so many students need practice analyzing data, graphing data, and thinking analytically, the end-of-chapter exercises have been redesigned as Data Analysis projects. In each exercise, students are asked to create or analyze graphs, to map or inspect a data set, or take other steps to analyze data.
Critical Thinking and Discussion questions make excellent starting points for discussion sections. They also could be used to practice for essay exams. A more challenging, open-ended set of questions have been added to encourage students to think more deeply and independently about issues and principles presented in the chapter.
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Updated Case Studies--Every chapter opens with a Case Study (nearly all of them are new to this edition) that shows how the science presented in that chapter is of current interest. In this edition, the authors have chosen positive examples in which people are taking action to repair and improve some aspect of their environment. In addition, each case study has a new Locator Map that highlights the area of interest being discussed.
Correlation Guide:
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This convenient guide matches the issues in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues, 15/e with the corresponding chapters in three of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Enger/Smith and Cunningham/Cunningham.
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This convenient guide matches the Parts in Classic Editions Sources: Environmental Studies, 4/e, with corresponding chapters in two of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Cunningham/Cunningham.
Correlation Guide:
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This convenient guide matches the issues in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Sustainability with the corresponding chapters in two of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Cunningham and Cunningham.
Correlation Guide:
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This convenient guide matches the issues in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues, 14/e Expanded with the corresponding chapters in two of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Cunningham and Cunningham.
Correlation Guide:
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This convenient guide matches the units in Annual Editions: Environment 11/12 with the corresponding chapters in three of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Enger/Smith and Cunningham/Cunningham.
Correlation Guide:
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This convenient guide matches the units in Annual Editions: Environment 12/13 with the corresponding chapters in three of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Environmental Science textbooks by Enger/Smith and Cunningham/Cunningham.
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