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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Environmental Challenges We Face | |
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| Introduction: A World in Crisis | |
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| Human Impacts on the Environment | |
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| Sustainability and EarthGs Capacity to Support Humans | |
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| Environmental Science | |
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| How We Handle Environmental Problems | |
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| Case Study: The New Orleans Disaster | |
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| Environmental Sustainability and Human Values | |
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| Introduction: The Global Commons | |
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| Human Use of the Earth | |
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| Human Values and Environmental Problems | |
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| Environmental Justice | |
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| An Overall Plan for Sustainable Living | |
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| Case Study: Jakarta, Indonesia | |
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| Environmental History, Politics, and Economics | |
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| Introduction: Old Growth Forest of the Pacific Northwest | |
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| Conservation and Preservation of Resources | |
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| Environmental History | |
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| Environmental Legislation | |
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| Environmental Economics | |
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| Case Study: Environmental Problems in Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| Risk Analysis and Environmental Health Hazards | |
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| Introduction: Pesticides and Children | |
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| A Perspective on Risks | |
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| Environmental Health Hazards | |
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| Movement and Fate of Toxicants | |
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| How We Determine the Health Effects of Pollutants | |
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| The Precautionary Principle | |
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| Case Study: Endocrine Disrupters | |
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| How Ecosystems Work | |
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| Introduction: Lake VictoriaGs Ecological Imbalance | |
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| What is Ecology?The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems | |
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| The Cycling of Matter in Ecosystems | |
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| Ecological Niches | |
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| Interactions Among Organisms | |
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| Case Study: Global Climate Change: Is There an Imbalance in the Carbon Cycle? | |
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| Ecosystems and Evolution | |
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| Introduction: The Florida Everglades | |
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| EarthGs Major Biomes | |
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| Aquatic Ecosystems | |
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| Population Responses to Changing Conditions Over Time: Evolution | |
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| Community Responses to Changing Conditions over Time: Succession | |
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| Case Study: Wildfires | |
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| Human Population Change and the Environment | |
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| Introduction: Slowing Population Growth in China | |
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| Population Ecology | |
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| Human Population Patterns | |
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| Demographics of Countries | |
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| Stabilizing World Population | |
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| Population and Urbanization | |
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| Case Study: Urban Planning in Curitiba, Brazil | |
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| Air and Air Population | |
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| Introduction: Long-Distance Transport of Air Pollution | |
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| The Atmosphere | |
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| Types and Sources of Air Pollution | |
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| Effects of Air Pollution | |
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| Controlling Air Pollutants | |
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| Indoor Air Pollution | |
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| Case Study: Curbing Air Pollution in Chattanooga | |
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| Global Atmospheric Changes | |
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| Introduction: Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels | |
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| The Atmosphere and Climate | |
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| Global Climate Change | |
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| Ozone Depletion in the Stratosphere | |
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| Acid Deposition | |
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| Case Study: International Implications of Global Climate Change | |
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| Freshwater Resources and Water Pollution | |
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| Introduction: The Missouri River: A Battle Over Water Rights | |
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| The Importance of Water | |
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| Water-Resource Problems | |
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| Water Management | |
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| Water Pollution | |
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| Improving Water Quality | |
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| Case Study: Water Pollution in the Great Lakes | |
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| The Ocean and Fisheries | |
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| Introduction: Depleting Bluefin Tuna Stocks | |
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| The Global Ocean | |
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| Major Ocean Life Zones | |
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| Human Impacts on the Ocean | |
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| Addressing Ocean Problems | |
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| Case Study: Humans and the Antarctic Food Web | |
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| Mineral and Soil Resources | |
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| Introduction: Copper Basin, Tennessee | |
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| Plate Tectonics and The Rock Cycle | |
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| Economic Geology: Useful Minerals | |
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| Environmental Implications of Mineral Use | |
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| Soil Properties and Processes | |
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| Soil Problems and Conservation | |
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| Case Study: Industrial Ecosystems | |
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| Land Resources | |
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| Introduction: Korup National Park | |
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| Land Use in the United States | |
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| Forests | |
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| Rangelands | |