The text was designed to accommodate students with various academic backgrounds. Most of the chapters contain two types of text materials. In the basic text portion of each chapter, information is presented at a level suitable for beginning college students. Here students are given a solid...
The theme and objective of the second edition of Environmental Science: The Way the World Works is to develop an understanding of the principles underlying the support and maintenance of all ecosystems; show how our management of the human ecosystem, in many cases, is counter to these principles,...
Key ResourceIn a monumental and provocative presentation, Allan Savory addresses the question of why-despite universal efforts to halt "desertification"-land, air and water resources, along with many forms of plant and animal life, continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate throughout our planet....