Earth Resources and the Environment

Name: Earth Resources and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780321676481

ISBN-10: 0321676483

ISBN-13: 9780321676481

Edition: 4th 2011

Authors: James Craig, David Vaughan, Brian Skinner

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Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resources-energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed. Minerals: The Foundations of Society; Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources; Earth Resources Through History; Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use; Energy From Fossil Fuels; Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources; Abundant Metals; The Geochemically Scarce Metals; Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals; Building Materials and Other…

Book details

List price: $206.65
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 1/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 8.80" wide x 11.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.322
Language: English

James Craig has worked in London as a journalist and as a consultant for almost thirty years. He lives in Covent Garden with his wife and daughter.




Minerals: the Foundations of Society



Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources



Earth Resources Through History



Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use



Energy From Fossil Fuels



Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources



Abundant Metals



The Geochemically Scarce Metals



Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals



Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals



Water Resources



Soil as a Resource



Future Resources