Living in the Environment: Problems, Connections and Solutions (Wadsworth biology series)

by G . Tyler Miller (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $9.72

  Intended for environmental science, environmental biology and human ecology courses, this book is a comprehensive revision with an update of each chapter. It uses basic scientific concepts to show how global, national, and local environmental facts, problems, and possible solutions are related and discusses and evaluates opposing sides of major environmental issues and treatments. The text emphasizes energy as an integrating concept, presenting a sustainable-Earth world view and a realistically hopeful attitude. 10,000 references and 200 specialist reviewers document and support the text.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.24

  This book treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from the natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, and geology, and from the social sciences such as economics, politics, and ethics to present a general idea of how nature works and how things are interconnected.