Test Bank for Living in the Environment, 17th International Edition: G. Tyler Miller Jr.

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 053849414X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0538494144
• Author: G. Tyler Miller Jr.

Learn how to make a difference in our environment! Using sustainability as the central theme, this current and thought-provoking book provides you with basic scientific tools for understanding and thinking critically about the environment and the environmental problems we face. Updated with new information, art, and “Good News” examples, this engaging book offers vivid case studies and hands-on quantitative exercises. The concept-centered approach transforms complex environmental topics and issues into key concepts that you will be able to understand and remember. Overall, by framing the concepts with goals for more sustainable lifestyles and human communities, authors G. Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman enable you to learn and implement useful environmental solutions and see how promising the future can be.

Table of contents:

PART I: HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW.

1. The Environment and Sustainability.

PART II: SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, AND SUSTAINABILITY.

2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems.

3. Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

4. Biodiversity and Evolution.

5. Species Interactions, Ecological Succession, and Population Control.

6. The Human Population

. 7. Climate and Terrestrial Biodiversity.

8. Aquatic Biodiversity

. PART III: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY.

9. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species.

10. Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services.

11. Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity: Saving Aquatic Systems and Ecosystem Services.

PART IV: SUSTAINING NATURAL RESOURCES.

12. Food Production and the Environment.

13. Water Resources.

14. Geology and Mineral Resources.

15. Nonrenewable Energy.

16. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

PART V: SUSTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

17. Environmental Hazards and Human Health.

18. Air Pollution and Ozone Depletion.

19. Climate Change.

20. Water Pollution.

21. Solid and Hazardous Waste.

22. Urbanization and Sustainability.

PART VI: SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES.

23. Economics, Environment, and Sustainability.

24. Politics, Environment, and Sustainability.

25. Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability. Glossary. Index.

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