Exploring environmental issues : an integrated approach /

Exploring environmental issues : an integrated approach / / David D. Kemp.

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Kemp, David D., 1943-
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvii, 444 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The environment and the history of environmental concerns
  • The environment and its components
  • Society and environment
  • The environmental movement
  • Environmental issues and the environmental movement in the twentieth century
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 2. The physical environment
  • Lithosphere
  • Atmosphere
  • Hydrosphere
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 3. The biosphere : the living environment
  • Soil
  • Plants and animals in the biosphere
  • Ecosystems and biomes
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 4. Demography and world population growth
  • Population ecology
  • The earth's human population
  • Stages of world population growth
  • The demographic transition and the environment
  • World population growth and trends
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 5. Society, resources, technology and the environment
  • Resources
  • Conservation, preservation and sustainability
  • The role of technology
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 6. Human use of the land and its environmental consequences
  • Threats to the land resource
  • Pressure on land : resource extraction and depletion
  • Pressure on land : infrastructure and waste disposal
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 7. Threats to wildlife and plants
  • Wilderness
  • Habitat destruction
  • Loss of biodiversity
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 8. Threats to the availability and quality of water
  • Water use
  • Water availability
  • Water quality
  • Water pollution : sources, impacts and solutions
  • Pollution in the oceans
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 9. Drought, famine and desertification
  • Drought
  • Famine
  • Desertification
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 10. Air pollution and acid rain
  • The constituents of the atmosphere and air pollution
  • Urban air pollution
  • Acid precipitation
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 11. Ozone depletion and global warming
  • Ozone depletion
  • Global warming
  • Summary and conclusion
  • 12. Problems, prospects and solutions
  • Current perceptions of the state of the environment
  • Business as usual, adaptation or prevention?
  • International cooperation
  • Is sustainable development the answer?

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