This issues workbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining simple math and critical thinking to gain insight into relevant local, regional, and global environmental issues. It focuses on sustainability, integrating a broad overview of the essentials throughout the text and providing an in-depth exploration in Part 7, “Sustainability and the Individual.” The presentation of real-world issues and examples fosters the development of the math and analytical skills necessary to truly think critically and to understand these complex issues.
Key Features
- Topical, relevant, and timely issues – rather than hypothetical situations – include population growth, energy and natural resources, transportation, and air and water pollution.
- Critical thinking tools are presented and applied throughout the book, enabling students to understand the nature of critical thinking before they are asked to think critically about an issue.
- Simple math is included to understand environmental issues, explaining mathematical formulas in a non-threatening, step-by-step manner that demystifies math and helps students gain confidence.
New to This Edition
- New topics have been integrated into issues, including hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), e-recycling, southern forests, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Platform incident in the Gulf of Mexico, the Keystone XL pipeline, and tar sands.
- Exciting and important developments in the field of sustainability are integrated throughout the book.
- Expanded treatment of climate change and its impacts.
- All issues are updated and in some cases, substantially rewritten and streamlined.
- Critical thinking questions help students make connections between their own lives and surroundings and issues of global environmental importance. The provocative nature of the critical thinking questions provide for a vibrant classroom atmosphere.
Contents
- Basic Concepts and Tools
Part One: Principles of Sustainability
Part Two: Population and Migration
Part Two: Population and Migration
- 1 Global Population Growth: Is it Sustainable?
- 2 Carrying Capacity and Ecological Footprint
- 3 Coastal Population Growth: Bangladesh
- 4 Population Growth and Migration
Part Three: Climate Change
- 5 Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Part One
- 6 Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Part Two
Part Four: Energy
- 7 Oil and Natural Gas
- 8 Coal
- 9 Bringing the World to the U.S. Standard of Living
- 10 Sustainable Energy: Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind?
Part Five: Consumption and the Quality of Life
- 11 Global Water Supplies: Are They Sustainable?
- 12 Motor Vehicles and the Environment I
- 13 Motor Vehicles and the Environment II: Global Trends
- 14 Whacker Madness? The Proliferation of Turfgrass
- 15 Mountains of Trash: Are They Sustainable?
- 16 Gold Mining: Is It Sustainable?
- 17 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Part Six: Threats to Ecosystems
- 18 Global Grain Production: Can We Beef It Up?
- 19 Soils and Sustainable Societies
- 20 The State of Global Forests
- 21 Restoring Estuaries: Chesapeake Bay
- 22 Illegal Immigration: Ballast Water and Exotic Species
- 23 Catch of the Day: The State of Global Fisheries
Part Seven: Sustainability and the Individual
- 24 Sustainable Communities: Sprawl versus Smart Growth
- 25 Sustainable Coastal Development
- 26 Sustainable Buildings and Housing
- 27 The Three R’s: Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling
- 28 A Sustainable Diet
- 29 The Sustainable Campus
- 30 Restoration Ecology
- Index
Book Details
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pearson Learning Solutions; 4 edition (c2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1256933090
- ISBN-13: 978-1256933090
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.1 x 10.6 inches
- List Price: $63.60