The Environment in Question presents information on specific environmental issues and introduces the reader to arguments and ethical problems that have developed in and around such issues. The contributors take a global perspective, reflected in contributions from the U.S.A., the U.K., India, and Australia. By addressing specific global problems and placing them within an ethical context, this study provides the reader with both a theoretical and practical understanding of environmental issues. The...

This best-selling text covers basic principles in human geography. It follows a thematic approach that emphasizes where people and human activities are located, why they are located in particular places, and what significance these observed arrangements represent. The revised sixth edition has been reworked to strengthen coverage of ethnicity, local diversity, and the “where and why” framework of the book.

G. Tyler Miller’s worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line–enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students...

This text presents an broad range of essays which encompass recent contributions to the study of the cosmic sized problems which confront our species. This comprehensive collection traces the connections between moral principles, economic assumptions, biological considerations, and disputes over environmental policy. It seeks to extract for critical attention the relevant moral or normative presuppositions which lie behind policy recommendations, whether made by biologists, ecologists, economists,...

This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a “brain drain”) is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.

In Central America, as in other regions where protracted wars have caused large-scale forced migration, the issues of repatriation and repopulation are of growing interest and concern. “Places of Origin” provides an account of the collective return of refugees and displaced persons, despite a continuing civil war, to the villagers they once fled in rural El Salvador. This increasingly significant popular movement represents a complex development in the history of the region’s conflicts....

Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues (museums, media outlets, state parks, science clubs, after-school programs), and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning. Learning Science in...