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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Natural Resource Conservation and Management: Past, Present, and Future | |
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| A Crisis on Planet Earth? | |
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| Differing Viewpoints: Are We on a Sustainable Course | |
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| A Brief History of the Resource Conservation, Environmental, and Sustainability Movements | |
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| The Earth Summit and Beyond | |
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| Classification of Natural Resources | |
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| Approaches to Natural Resource Management | |
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| Changing Realities: The Nemesis Effect | |
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| New Tools for Resource Management: Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing | |
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| Economics and Ethics, and Critical Thinking: Tools for Creating a Sustainable Future | |
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| Ethics in Resource Conservation 2.1 Ethics Versus Economics | |
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| Understanding Economics | |
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| Creating a Sustainable Economy | |
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| Toward Sustainable Ethics | |
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| Geographic Information Systems and Ecological Justice | |
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| Critical Thinking and Sustainable Development | |
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| Lessons from Ecology | |
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| Levels of Organization | |
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| Scientific Principles Relevant to Ecology | |
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| The Flow of Energy through Ecosystems | |
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| Principles of Ecology | |
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| The Biomes | |
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| Life Returns to Mount St. Helens: A Dramatic Example of Succession | |
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| Ecology and Sustainability | |
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| The Human Population Challenge | |
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| Understanding Populations and Population Growth | |
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| The Impacts of Over Population | |
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| Population Growth in the More Developed Nations: A Closer Look | |
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| Ethics in Resource Conservation 4.1 Is Reproduction A Personal Right? | |
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| Population Growth in the Less Developed Nations: A Closer Look | |
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| Controlling the Growth of the World's Population | |
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| Human Population and the Earth's Carrying Capacity | |
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| China: One of Family Plannings Success Stories? | |
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| World Hunger: Solving the Problem Sustainably | |
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| World Hunger: Dimensions of the Problem | |
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| Increasing Food Supplies Sustainably: An Overview | |
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| Ethics In Resource Conservation 5.1 Feeding People or Controlling Population Growth | |
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| Poverty Conflict and Free Trade: Vital Strategies Needed to Feed the Worlds People | |
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| The Nature of Soils | |
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| Value of Soil | |
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| Characteristics of Soil | |
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| Soil Formation | |
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| The Soil Profile | |
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| Soil Classification | |
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| Soil Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture | |
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| The Nature of Soil Erosion | |
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| The Dust Bowl | |
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| The Shelterbelt Program | |
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| Soil Erosion Today | |
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| Factors Affecting the Rate of Soil Erosion by Water | |
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| Controlling Soil Erosion by Water | |
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| A 100-Year Study of the Effects of Cropping on Soil Erosion | |
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| The Universal Soil Loss Equation | |
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| Alternative Agriculture | |
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| Sustainable Agriculture | |
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| GIS and Remote Sensing GIS, Remote Sensing, and Precision Farming | |
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| Pesticides: Protecting Our Crops, Our Health, and Our Environment | |
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| Where Do Pests Come From? | |
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| Types of Chemical Pesticides: An Historical Perspective | |
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| How Effective Are Pesticides? | |
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| How Hazardous Are Pesticides? | |
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| Sustainable Pest Control | |
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| GIS and Remote Sensing Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Detect Pest Damage in Oregon's Forests | |
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| Tsetse Flies Brought Under Control in Zanzibar | |
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| Are Pesticides Adequately Regulated? | |
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| Aquatic Environments | |
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| Wetlands | |
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| The Lake Ecosystem | |
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| The Stream Ecosystem | |
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| The Coastal Environment | |
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| The Ocean | |
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| Managing Resource Sustainability Waters | |
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| The Water Cycle | |
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| Flooding: Problems and Solutions | |
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| The Great Mississippi Flood of 1993 | |
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| GIS and Remote Sensing GIS Aids Snow Monitoring and Modeling at the National Weather Service | |
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| Water Shortages: Issues and Solutions | |
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| Irrigation: Issues and Solutions | |
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| Water Pollution | |
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| Types of Water Pollution | |
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| Major Pollutants and Their Control | |
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| The Zebra Mussel: A Water Contaminant From Europe | |
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| Sewage Treatment and Disposal | |
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| Invisible Threat: Toxic Chemicals in The Great Lakes | |
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| Legislating Water Pollution Control | |
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| Pollution of Oceans | |
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| A World View of Water Pollution | |
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| Fisheries Conservation | |
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| Freshwater Fisheries | |
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| Environmental Limitations to the Reproductive Potential of Freshwater Fish | |
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| The Sea Lamprey Scourge of The Great Lakes | |
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| Sustainable Freshwater Fisheries Management | |
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| Rebuilding Fish and Wildlife Populations on the Columbia River Drainage System | |
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| Salmon Fever in The Great Lakes | |
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| Marine Fisheries | |
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| Problems Facing the Marine Fisheries Industry | |
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| Sustainable Marine Fisheries Management | |
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| Aquaculture | |
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| Rangeland Management | |
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| Ecology of Rangelands | |
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| Prairie Restoration and the National Grasslands Story | |
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| Brief History of Range Use in the United States | |
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| Causes of Desertification | |
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| Rangeland Resources and Condition | |
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| Range Wars: Ranche Versus Environmentalists | |
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| Range Management | |
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| Methods of Coyote Control | |
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| Forest Management | |
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| Forest Ownership | |
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| The U.S. Forest Service | |
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| Harvesting Trees | |
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| The Monoculture Controversy | |
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| Reforestation | |
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| Genetic Engineering: The Key to Tomorrow's Superforests | |
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| Control of Forest Pests | |
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| Fire Management | |
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| Controlling Insect Outbreaks with Heterotypes | |
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| Meeting Future Timber Demands | |
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| Preserving Wilderness | |
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| Forest Conservation by Efficient Utilization | |
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| Protecting Natural Resources: National Parks | |
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| The Wilderness Controversy | |
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| Reversing Tropical Deforestation | |
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| Plant and Animal Extinction | |
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| Extinction: Eroding the Earth's Biological Diversity | |
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| Understanding Population Dynamics | |
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| Causes of Extinction | |
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| Dam Versus Darter: A Classic Confrontation | |
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| The Passenger Pigeon: The Many Causes of Extinction | |
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| GIS Remote Sensing Mapping Noxious Weeds With GIS | |
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| Ethics in Resource Management 15.3 Do Other Species have a Right to Exist? | |
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| Methods of Preventing Extinction | |
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| The Endangered Species Act | |
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| Wildlife Management | |
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| Wildlife | |
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| Types of Animal Movements | |
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| Mortality Factors | |
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| The Hunting Controversy | |
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| Wildlife Management | |
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| Regulating Populations | |
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| The Everglades: Water Troubles in A Wildlife Paradise | |
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| Ethics in Resource Conservation 16.3 To Kill or Not to Kill | |
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| Nongame Wildlife | |
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| Sustainable Waste Management | |
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| Municipal Waste: Tapping a Wasted Resource | |
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| Managing Our Municipal Solid Wastes Sustainably | |
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| Ethics in Resource Conservation 17.1 Do We Have an Obligation to Future Generations? | |
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| Waste Disposal: The Final Option | |
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| Hazardous Wastes | |
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| The Chemical Time Bomb at Love Canal | |
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| Exportin Toxic Troubles | |
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| Air Pollution | |
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| Pollution of the Atmosphere | |
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| Major Atmospheric Pollutants | |
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| The Clean Air Act | |
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| Factors Affecting Air Pollution Concentrations | |
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| Effects of Air Pollution on Local Climate | |
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| Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health | |
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| Asbestos: The Dangers of a Useful Product | |
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| Air Pollution Abatement and Control | |
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| Getting Charged Up Over Electric Cars | |
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| Indoor Air Pollution | |
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| Tobacco Smoke: The Deadliest Air Pollutant | |
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| Air Pollution: Global Problems | |
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| Global Climate Change | |
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| Acid Deposition | |
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| GIS and Remote Sensing GIS Aids Emergency Response and Survival Strategies in Bangladesh | |
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| Depletion of Stratospheric Ozone | |
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| Ethics in Resource Conservation 19.1 Debate Over Global Warming and Ozone Depletion: Do We Have an Obligation to Other Countries? | |
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| Minerals, Mining, and a Sustainable Society | |
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| Supply and Demand | |
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| Can We Expand Our Mineral Supplies? | |
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| Mineral Conservation Strategies | |
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| Environmental Impacts of Mineral Production | |
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| Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Issues and Options | |
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| Global Energy Sources: An Overview | |
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| A Closer Look at Nonrenewable Energy Resources | |
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| The Nuclear Energy Option: Is It Sustainable? | |
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| Fusion Reactors | |
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| America's Energy Future | |
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| Creating a Sustainable System of Energy: Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
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| Conservation | |
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| Renewable Energy Strategies | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Illustration Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |