The amount of material published on environmental issues continues to grow, comprised of broad generalizations aimed at non-specialists in the field. This edition of Global Environmental Issues fills the gap between technical literature and general articles for popular reading. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, drought and acid rain–those which raise the greatest concern, and emphasizes both their societal and environmental components....

The entire history of the Earth has been one of change. Humans must learn to understand and adapt to these changes. This book identifies vital environmental issues and explores why they are important, how we place value on them, what the scientific basis for understanding them is, and how we might solve them. Environmental cases highlight important applications.

Organized into two main parts, the first on theory and the second on applications, the second edition of this popular anthology provides the most comprehensive set of readings available for environmental ethics and includes topic areas not covered in other anthologies. The text follows a dialogical pro/con format to present different and conflicting views on each topic and articles have been carefully selected for clarity and accessibility.

Aimed at environmental science courses, this book offers an integrated approach that emphasizes solutions. The book treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from natural sciences such as biology, chemistry and geology, and social sciences such as economics, politics and ethics to present an idea of how nature works and how things are interconnected. The text uses basic scientific concepts to show how global, national and local environmental facts,...

Environment, 2/e is a serious science text that is appealing and understandable to students from all disciplines. It takes a solutions-oriented approach to environmental problems by providing students with information and allowing them to make their own conclusions.

Rome comes alive in this tale of Jewish Christian slave girl Hadassah. Her story encourages readers to represent Christ in their world. Spanish available

This book is intended for use as a text in International Forestry and for reference purposes for students of forestry, range management, and other fields of natural-resource management. Laarman/Sedjo explain cross country patterns of international trade in forest products, evaluate issues linking forests to the biosphere, and the management of forests and wildlands in the global context.

Focusing on energy, this is one of a series which focuses on the dangers to the Earth’s future, detailing the causes, effects and the steps that are being taken to avert disaster.