Title The Environment and you / Norm Christensen, Lissa Leege, Justin St. Juliana

Edition Third edition Published NY, NY : Pearson Education, Inc., [2019]

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Description xx, [676] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: It Takes a Community -- 1.1.Environment and Sustainability -- The Environment and You -- Defining Sustainable Actions -- Planet, People, and Profit: The Triple Bottom Line -- Seeing Solutions: DIRTT -- 1.2.Ecosystems -- Ecosystem Function and Integrity -- Ecosystem Services -- 1.3.Principles of Ecosystem Function -- Conservation of Matter and Energy -- Ecosystems Are Open -- Ecosystem Stability -- Ecosystem Change -- 1.4.Acting Sustainably -- Managing Resources -- Understanding Boundaries -- Maintaining Balance and Integration -- Embracing Change -- 1.5.Uncertainty, Science, and Systems Thinking -- Uncertainty -- Reducing Uncertainty with Science -- Systems Thinking -- Focus On Science: Ways of Knowing -- 1.6.Sustainable Development, The Environment, and You -- Sustainable Development Goals -- Challenges to Sustainable Development -- Agents Of Change: Earth Rebirth -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Dam-nation! -- Contents note continued: 2.1.Changing Views of Humans and Nature -- Pre-Industrial Views -- The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution -- Living in the Modern World: Conservation vs. Preservation -- 2.2.Environmental Ethics -- Doing the Right Thing -- Who or What Matters? -- Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice -- 2.3.The Environment and the Marketplace -- Economic Systems -- Supply and Demand -- Economic Value -- Market Complications -- 2.4.Valuing Ecosystems -- Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services -- Ecological Valuation -- Focus On Science: Calculating Ecological Value -- Measuring the Wealth of Nations -- 2.5.Environmental Policy: Deciding and Acting -- The Policy Cycle -- Policy Decision Framework -- 2.6.U.S. Environmental Law and Policy -- Governmental Functions -- The Constitution and Environmental Policy -- 2.7.International Environmental Law and Policy -- Environmental Laws -- International Institutions -- Contents note continued: Seeing Solutions: The Global Environmental Facility and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor -- Agents Of Change: Reducing Plastic Waste at the University of Puerto Rico -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Searching for Life Elsewhere -- 3.1.Chemistry of the Environment -- Atoms and Isotopes -- Molecules and Ionic Compounds -- The Water Molecule -- 3.2.The Organic Chemistry of Life -- Biological Chemicals -- 3.3.Energy and the Environment -- Energy -- Laws of Thermodynamics -- Forms of Energy -- Energy Units -- 3.4.Earth's Structure -- The Core, Mantle, and Crust -- Building and Moving Continents -- The Rock Cycle -- 3.5.Element Cycles in Earth's Ecosystems -- Biogeochemical Cycles -- Nutrients -- 3.6.Earth's Atmosphere -- Composition of Gases -- Layers of the Atmosphere -- Water in the Atmosphere -- 3.7.Earth's Energy Budget, Weather, and Climate -- Earth's Energy Budget -- Weather and Climate -- Wind Cells -- Ocean Currents -- Contents note continued: The Seasons -- Depicting Earth's Climate -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Genetic Change and Population Growth-Fact and Fiction -- 4.1.The Cell-The Fundamental Unit of Life -- Cell Structure -- Energy Transformations and the Cell -- 4.2.DNA Is the Key to the Diversity of Life -- Reproduction -- Mutations -- Phenotypes -- 4.3.The Growth of Populations -- Birth, Death, and Migration -- Exponential Population Growth: A Case Study -- Survivorship and Fertility -- 4.4.Limits on Population Growth -- Environmental Resistance Limits Growth -- Alternative Patterns of Population Growth -- Focus On Science: The Myth of Lemming Suicide Other Limits on Population Growth Habitat and Ecological Niche -- 4.5.Evolution and Natural Selection -- Darwin's Finches -- Finch Studies Continue -- Natural Selection Works on Inherited Variations -- Evolution Is Genetic Change -- 4.6.The Evolution of Species -- Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms -- Contents note continued: 4.7.The Hierarchy of Life -- Evolutionary Map -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Human Population Growth-By the Numbers -- 5.1.The History of Human Population Growth -- Three Periods of Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Demography Is Not Destiny -- Demographic Transition Model -- A Tale of Two Countries -- 5.2.Global Variation in Human Population Growth -- Birth Rate -- Death Rate -- Age Structure -- Migration -- 5.3.Predicting Human Population Growth -- Population Growth Forecasts -- Focus On Science: Forecasting Future Population Trends and Their Uncertainties -- 5.4.Managing Population Growth -- Family Planning -- Development and Population -- Aging Populations -- Two Approaches to Population Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Women Deliver -- 5.5.Resource Use and Population Sustainability -- Sustainability vs. Carrying Capacity -- Human Resource Use -- Affluence and Technology -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Straight Poop on Dung Beetles -- Contents note continued: 6.1.Competition for Shared Resources -- Interspecific Competition -- How Competitors Coexist -- Exploitation and Interference -- 6.2.Herbivory, Predation, and Parasitism -- Herbivores -- Predators -- Parasites -- 6.3.Mutualism and Commensalism -- Mutualisms and Commensalisms -- 6.4.The Flow of Energy in Ecological Communities -- Food Chains -- Energy and Biomass Pyramids -- Food Web and Species Diversity -- Keystone Species -- Focus On Science: The Little Things Do Matter -- 6.5.The Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Productivity -- The Carbon Cycle -- Terrestrial Carbon -- Aquatic and Marine Carbon -- Human Impacts -- 6.6.Disturbance and Community Change -- Primary Succession -- Secondary Succession -- Cyclic Succession -- The Importance of Place and Time -- Agents Of Change: Vermicomposting at Michigan State University -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Exploring Life's Diversity and Geography -- 7.1.The Geography of Terrestrial Biomes -- Contents note continued: Characteristics of Terrestrial Biomes -- 7.2.Tropical Biomes -- Tropical Rain Forest -- Tropical Seasonal Forest -- Tropical Savanna -- 7.3.Temperate Biomes -- Temperate Deciduous Forest -- Temperate Evergreen Forest -- Chaparral -- Temperate Grassland -- 7.4.Polar Biomes -- Boreal Forest -- Tundra -- 7.5.Deserts -- Defining Deserts -- 7.6.Mountains and Coastlines -- Mountains -- Focus On Science: Shifting Biomes -- Coastlines -- 7.7.Aquatic Biomes -- Streams -- Lakes and Ponds -- Wetlands -- 7.8.Marine Biomes -- Estuaries -- Oceans -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Back from the Brink? -- 8.1.What Is Biodiversity? -- Landscape Biodiversity -- Community Biodiversity -- Genetic Biodiversity -- 8.2.Why Biodiversity Matters -- Existence Value -- Ecosystem Functions and Services -- Ecosystem Stability -- Economic Value -- 8.3.Global Patterns of Biodiversity -- Mapping Species Richness -- Biodiversity Hotspots -- Contents note continued: 8.4.Differences in Biodiversity Among Communities -- Habitat Diversity -- Species Interactions -- Disturbance -- Local Immigration and Extinction Rates -- 8.5.Threats to Biodiversity -- Habitat Loss and Degradation -- Habitat Fragmentation -- Overharvesting -- Non-Native Invasive Species -- Pollution -- Altered Patterns of Disturbance -- Climate Change -- 8.6.Strategies for Conserving Biodiversity -- Preserves and Protected Areas -- Focus On Science: Conservation Corridors -- Managing Populations of Individual Species -- 8.7.U.S. Policies for Conserving Biodiversity -- National Parks and Wilderness Areas -- Legislation to Protect Species -- Conservation on Private Land -- 8.8.International Policies for Conserving Biodiversity -- Endangered Species Trade and Harvest -- Economic Incentives for Conservation -- Seeing Solutions: Keeping Things Connected -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- A World of Change -- 9.1.Long-Term Climate Patterns -- Contents note continued: The Pleistocene-The Last 2 Million Years -- Holocene-The Last 10,000 Years -- 9.2.Measuring Global Temperature -- Measuring Recent Climate Change -- Causes of Natural Climate Variation -- 9.3.Causes of Global Warming -- The Greenhouse Effect -- Human Impacts -- Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 9.4.Consequences of Global Warming -- Drier and Wetter -- Melting Glaciers and Ice Sheets -- Rising Sea Level -- Changing Populations and Ecosystems -- 9.5.Forecasting Global Warming -- Computer Simulation of Global Warming -- Forecasting Scenarios -- Forecast Consequences -- 9.6.Mitigating Global Warming -- Defining the Challenge -- Efficiency and Conservation -- Fossil Fuel Use -- Renewable Energy -- Nuclear Energy -- Biostorage -- 9.7.Adapting to Global Warming -- Committed Warming, Inevitable Change -- Focus On Science: Adapting to Rising Seas -- 9.8.Mitigation and Adaptation Policies -- What Is the Cost? -- Policy Alternatives -- Agreeing on the Facts -- Contents note continued: International Global Change Policy -- Seeing Solutions: A State of Change -- Agents Of Change: Human Power Brings Energy to the Power Pad -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Killer Smog -- 10.1.Air Quality and Air Pollution -- Gases and Particles -- Sources of Air Pollution -- Dispersion and Deposition of Air Pollution -- 10.2.Pollution in the Stratosphere -- Aerosols and Climate -- Stratospheric Ozone Destruction -- Focus On Science: Laboratory Science Predicts Global Effects -- 10.3.Pollution in the Troposphere -- Acid Deposition -- Heavy Metals -- Smog -- Air Quality Index -- 10.4.Indoor Air Pollution -- Combustion By-Products -- Seeing Solutions: Taking the Fire out of Cooking -- Building Materials -- Radon -- Pesticides -- Biological Contaminants -- 10.5.Air Pollution Policy and Law -- U.S. Air Pollution Policy -- International Air Pollution Policy -- Co-Benefits -- Agents Of Change: Resisting a Waste Incinerator in Baltimore -- Contents note continued: Synthesis And Key Concepts -- A Disappearing Resource -- 11.1.Water World I -- The Hydrologic Cycle and Earth's Water Budget -- The Geography of the Hydrologic Cycle -- Watersheds -- Providing Essential Ecosystem Services -- Where Is Earth's Fresh Water? -- 11.2.Groundwater -- Characteristics of Groundwater -- Human Uses and Impacts -- 11.3.Water Distribution -- Too Much Water -- Too Little Water -- Subsidence and Intrusion -- 11.4.Water Quality -- Water Pollution -- Effects of Water Pollution on Ecosystems -- Focus On Science: Measuring an Ocean of Plastic -- 11.5.Water Management and Conservation -- Regulating the Flow -- Seeing Solutions: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation-50 Years of a Private-Public Partnership -- Managing and Conserving Water Used in Agriculture -- Water Reuse -- Desalination -- Getting the Price Right -- 11.6.Wastewater Treatment -- Municipal Wastewater Treatment -- On-Site Wastewater Treatment -- 11.7.Water and You -- Contents note continued: Municipal Water Use -- Water Efficiency and Conservation -- 11.8.Water Conservation Policy and Law -- Water Use in the United States -- Water Quality in the United States -- International Water Law -- Agents Of Change: Water Conservation Competition -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Farming for the Future: Contrasting Approaches -- 12.1.Origins and History of Agriculture -- Why Did Agriculture Begin? -- How Did Agriculture Begin? -- And Then What? Agricultural History -- 12.2.Agroecosystems -- Energetics of Agroecosystems -- Cycling of Nitrogen and Phosphorus -- Dynamic Homeostasis -- 12.3.The Growth of Crop Plants -- Plant Growth and Reproduction -- What Grows Where and Why? -- The Role of Other Organisms -- 12.4.Managing Soil Resources -- Soil Origins and Structure -- Soil Fertility -- Soil Conservation -- 12.5.Water and Agriculture -- Water in Soil -- Irrigation -- Conserving Water in Agroecosystems -- 12.6.Livestock in Agroecosystems -- Contents note continued: Trophic Level Efficiency -- Environmental Impacts -- 12.7.Managing Genetic Resources -- Genetic Diversity and the Stability of Agroecosystems -- Genetically Modified Organisms -- 12.8.Managing Competitors and Pests -- Chemical Pest Control -- Biological Pest Control -- Agroecosystem Management of Pests -- 12.9.The Ecology of Eating -- The Food Footprint -- Ecological Eating -- Seeing Solutions: Urban Farming -- 12.10.Food for the Future -- Sustainable Agriculture -- Feeding a Hungry World -- Agents Of Change: STOGROW: A Student-Run Campus Farm at St. Olaf College -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Tragedy of Forest Loss in Haiti -- 13.1.The Values of Forests -- Ecosystem Services -- Wood Products -- Non-Wood Forest Products -- 13.2.Forest Growth -- The Life History of a Tree -- The Life History of a Forest Stand -- The Life History of a Forested Landscape -- Focus On Science: CO2 and the Growth of Forest Stands -- 13.3.Deforestation -- Contents note continued: Historical Change -- Causes of Deforestation -- How Can Deforestation Be Halted? -- Seeing Solutions: Restoring Forests and Community Well-Being in Haiti -- 13.4.Forest Degradation -- Forest Health in Peril -- 13.5.Defining Sustainable Forest Management -- Allocation -- Harvest -- Rationing -- Investment -- Criteria for Sustainable Forest Management -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The History of an Oil Field -- 14.1.Energy Production -- Energy Sources -- The Economics of Energy Resources -- 14.2.Coal -- Sources and Production -- Coal and the Environment -- 14.3.Oil and Natural Gas -- Sources -- Oil Production -- Natural Gas Production -- Oil, Natural Gas, and the Environment -- Focus On Science: Let It Snow -- 14.4.Nuclear Power -- Sources and Production -- Nuclear Power and the Environment -- 14.5.Electric Power-Generation, Distribution, and Use -- Generating Electricity -- Batteries and Fuel Cells -- Transmission of Electricity -- Contents note continued: Seeing Solutions: A Smart Grid -- Environmental Impacts -- Agents Of Change: An Advocate for Appalachia -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Human Energy Consumption Through the Ages -- 15.1.Renewable Energy Overview -- The Transition to Renewable Energy -- Challenges -- 15.2.Solar Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- 15.3.Biomass Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.4.Wind Power -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.5.Hydropower -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Development -- 15.6.Ocean Energy -- Sources and Production -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- 15.7.Geothermal Energy -- Sources and Supplies -- Advantages and Disadvantages -- Future Geothermal Energy Use -- 15.8.Energy Conservation and Efficiency -- Defining Energy Conservation -- More Efficient Lighting and Appliances -- Contents note continued: Automobile Efficiency -- Focus On Science: Are Electric Vehicles Really Better? -- 15.9.Sustainable Energy Policy -- Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Energy -- Policy Options -- Seeing Solutions: Leapfrogging to Renewables -- Agents Of Change: Biodiesel Project at Loyola University Chicago -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Portland, Oregon: Sustainable by Choice -- 16.1.Urbanization -- Ancient Cities -- Development of Modern Cities -- Current Trends -- 16.2.Urban Ecosystems -- Defining Urban Ecosystems -- Urban Climate -- Urban Hydrology -- 16.3.Urban Land Use -- Urban Population Distribution -- Causes of Urban Sprawl -- Consequences of Sprawl -- Urban Slums: Informal Settlements -- 16.4.Urban Planning -- Urban Plans and Planning -- Bounding Growth -- Sustainable Urban Growth -- Seeing Solutions: Atlanta's Beltline: Abandoned Railway to Transformative Park Network -- 16.5.The Built Environment: Sustainable Building -- Green Building -- Contents note continued: Rating Systems for Sustainable Building -- Seeing Solutions: Greening the Empire State Building -- 16.6.Urban Transportation -- The Challenges of Urban Transportation -- Balancing Transportation Options -- Urban Transportation Economics -- 16.7.Urban Biodiversity -- Urban Wildlife -- Green Infrastructure -- City Parks, Greenways, and Waterways -- Focus On Science: Green Walls and Bird Abundance -- 16.8.The City as a Sustainability Strategy -- Efficient Capture and Use of Energy and Matter -- Ecosystem Characteristics -- Agents Of Change: Get them to the Green -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- The Cost of a Can -- 17.1.Solid Waste -- Municipal Solid Waste -- Sanitary Landfills -- Waste to Energy -- Industrial Solid Waste -- 17.2.Hazardous, Biomedical, Electronic, and Radioactive Waste -- Hazardous Waste -- Biomedical Waste -- Electronic Waste -- Radioactive Waste -- 17.3.Sustainable Waste Management -- Diminishing the Waste Stream -- Contents note continued: Challenges to Municipal Recycling -- Focus On Science: To Recycle or Not to Recycle -- 17.4.Managing Product Life Cycles -- Life-Cycle Assessment -- Reimagining Product Life Cycles -- 17.5.Waste Management Policy and Law -- Municipal Solid Waste -- Hazardous, Biomedical, Electronic, and Radioactive Waste -- Seeing Solutions: Managing E-Waste -- Agents Of Change: Trash 2 Treasure: Post-Landfill Action Network -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Out of Africa -- 18.1.Introduction to Public Health -- Measuring Public Health -- Hazards and Risk -- Risk Perception and Reality -- 18.2.Physical Hazards in the Environment -- Geologic Hazards -- Weather Hazards -- Fire in the Environment -- 18.3.Chemical Hazards in the Environment -- What Is a Toxin? -- Human Vulnerability to Toxins -- Toxin Transport and Fate -- Kinds of Toxins -- Toxin Testing and Regulation -- Focus On Science: Citizen Science and the Flint Water Crisis -- Contents note continued: 18.4.Biological Hazards in the Environment -- Infectious Disease and the Environment -- Respiratory Disease -- Diarrheal Diseases -- Blood-Borne Diseases -- Evolutionary Change and the War against Pathogens -- Seeing Solutions: Ebola and the World Health Organization -- 18.5.Environmental Change and Human Health -- Human Population Size -- Air and Water Pollution -- Landscape Change -- Climate Change -- Agents Of Change: The Making of Swine Country: A Film about Public Health and Environmental Justice -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- 19.1.Hope for the Environment -- Warmer Climates -- Scarcer Resources -- Less Biodiversity -- More People and Bigger Footprints -- 19.2.And You? -- Continue to Learn and Improve Your Understanding -- Reduce Your Shoe Size -- Give What You Can -- Think and Act for the Future -- 19.3.Be an Agent of Change -- Articulate a Vision Based on Your Values and Be Willing to Act on It -- Cultivate Diversity -- Focus on Outcomes -- Contents note continued: Be Humble and Adaptable -- Be Confident, Committed, and Hopeful -- Agents Of Change: Closing the Loop with Plastics -- Synthesis And Key Concepts -- Appendix A: Graph Appendix -- Appendix B: Metric System Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Environmentalism Environmental policy Environmental protection Author Leege, Lissa, author St. Juliana, Justin, author LC no. 2017042314 ISBN 9780134646053 0134646053 9780134818764 0134818768 9780134784441 0134784448

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