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The environment: science, issues and solutions/
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Boca Raton:
CRC Press,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- The environment and the nature of scientific enquiry
- Biosphere and the science of ecology
- Atmosphere, climate, and organisms
- The soil environment
- The aquatic environment
- Biogeochemical cycling of materials
- Energy flows and ecosystem productivity
- Population ecology
- Community ecology and succession
- Biomes : the major ecosystems of the world
- Human population growth
- Land use : agriculture
- Land use : forest resources
- Land use : mining for mineral and coal resources
- Land use : urbanization and transportation
- Water resources : quantity and quality
- Fuel energy
- Air quality and stratospheric ozone
- The greenhouse effect and climate change
- Biological diversity loss and the march of invasive species
- Environmental policy and law
- Economic systems, growth, and development
- Environmental management
- Restoration of disturbed ecosystems
- Conservation of biological diversity and natural resources
- Sustainable development.