Environmental Science and Sustainability

✍ Scribed by Daniel Sherman, David Montgomery

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 65
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Half-Title Page
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
About the Authors
Brief Contents
Contents
At a Glance
To the Instructor
To the Student
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Environmental Science and Sustainability - What’s the Big Idea?
1.1: What Is the Environment, and What Is an Ecosystem?
1.2: What Is Sustainability?
1.3: What Is Environmental Justice?
1.4: What Is Science?
1.5: What Are Challenges to Good Science?
1.6: What Shapes Our Decisions on the Environment?
1.7: What Can I Do?
Chapter 1 Review
Chapter 2: Ethics, Economics, and Policy - Who or What Do We Value?
2.1: How Does Ethics Influence Our Decisions?
2.2: How Are the Environment and Economy Connected?
2.3: How Can Economics Help Us Understand Environmental Problems?
2.4: Why Do We Have Environmental Policy?
2.5: What Can I Do?
Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 3: Matter and Energy - What Are the Building Blocks of Sustainability?
3.1: What Is Matter Anyway?
3.2: What Distinguishes Different Kinds of Matter?
3.3: Can Matter Change?
3.4: What Is Energy?
3.5: What Happens to Energy When We Have Used It?
3.6: How Does Energy Affect Life?
3.7: What Can I Do?
Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 4: Life - What Shapes Biodiversity?
4.1: What Do Living Things Have in Common?
4.2: How Does Life Evolve?
4.3: What Causes Population Traits to Change?
4.4: What Shapes Biodiversity?
4.5: How Do Communities of Organisms Interact?
4.6: What Controls Population Size?
4.7: What Can Cause Loss of Biodiversity?
4.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 5: Conservation - Why Is It Important to Protect Biodiversity?
5.1: What Is the Status of Earth’s Biodiversity?
5.2: Why Protect Biodiversity?
5.3: What Are Protected Areas?
5.4: What Are the Limitations of Protected Areas, and Are There Alternatives?
5.5: Can Laws Protect Biodiversity?
5.6: What Can Be Done to Reduce Biodiversity Loss?
5.7: What Can Be Done to Fix Damage That Has Already Occurred?
5.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 6: Human Population - Can We Have Too Many People?
6.1: What Is the History of Human Population Change?
6.2: What Has Driven Recent Population Growth? Can Earth Support It?
6.3: How Have Societies Attempted to Control Population?
6.4: How Is Global Population Changing?
6.5: What Factors Facilitate a Demographic Transition?
6.6: How Does Empowering Women Change Populations?
6.7: How Is Population Connected to Consumption?
6.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 7: Water - How Do We Use It and Affect Its Quality?
7.1: Where on Earth Is All the Water?
7.2: How Does Fresh Water Support Life?
7.3: How Do Humans Impact Fresh Water?
7.4: Can We Improve Access to Fresh Water?
7.5: How Do We Keep Fresh Water Clean?
7.6: Why Is Frozen Water Important?
7.7: How Does the Ocean Support Life?
7.8: How Can Humans Impact the Ocean?
7.9: What Can I Do?
Chapter 7 Review
Chapter 8: Air - What Are We Breathing?
8.1: What Makes Up the Air We Breathe and Our Atmosphere?
8.2: What Is Weather and How Does It Change?
8.3: How Does the Atmosphere Circulate?
8.4: How Does the Atmosphere Become Polluted?
8.5: What Is Happening to the Ozone Layer?
8.6: What Is Acid Rain?
8.7: How Are We Responding to Pollution in the Atmosphere?
8.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 8 Review
Chapter 9: Land - How Does It Shape Us?
9.1: How Do Mountains Rise and Animals Find Their Way Home?
9.2: How Does Earth Recycle and Renew Its Surface?
9.3: Why Are Minerals Important, and How Do We Get Them?
9.4: What Shapes Earth’s Surface?
9.5: What Is Soil, and Where Does It Come From?
9.6: What Makes Soil Alive?
9.7: How Can Humans Repair and Sustain the Land?
9.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 10: Systems and Cycles - Are We Harming Earth’s Life Support System?
10.1: What Are Systems?
10.2: How Can We Show How a System Works?
10.3: How Do Earth’s Life-Support Systems Work?
10.4: How Do Living Things Change the Nitrogen Cycle?
10.5: How Are We Changing Earth’s Carbon Cycle?
10.6: What Can I Do?
Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 11: Climate - How Does Global Climate Change?
11.1: How Do We Measure Global Climate?
11.2: What Caused Climate Change in the Past?
11.3: How Do Oceans Influence the Climate?
11.4: What’s Happening with Our Climate Now?
11.5: What Are Some Effects of Climate Change?
11.6: What about the Future?
11.7: What Can I Do?
Chapter 11 Review
Chapter 12: Food - How Do We Feed Ourselves?
12.1: How Did Our Modern Agriculture Develop?
12.2: How Does Modern Agriculture Impact the Environment?
12.3: How Is Meat Production Changing What We Consume?
12.4: Is Conventional Meat Production Sustainable?
12.5: How Have Our Food Systems Changed?
12.6: How Do Our Food Choices Link to Sustainability?
12.7: What Can I Do?
Chapter 12 Review
Chapter 13: Fossil Fuels - Energy of the Industrial Age
13.1: What Are Fossil Fuels, and How Important Are They Today?
13.2: Have We Always Used Fossil Fuels?
13.3: What Drove the Rise of Fossil Fuels?
13.4: What Are the Environmental Impacts of Obtaining and Using Fossil Fuels?
13.5: What Factors Will Impact the Future of Fossil Fuels?
13.6: What Can I Do?
Chapter 13 Review
Chapter 14: Energy Alternatives - How Are Our Energy Decisions Changing?
14.1: Why Are Wind and Solar Power Use Growing?
14.2: What Are Other Energy Alternatives?
14.3: How Is Alternative Energy Used for Transportation?
14.4: What Role Does Energy Conservation Play in Energy Transitions?
14.5: What Could Drive a Transition away from Fossil Fuels?
14.6: What Can I Do?
Chapter 14 Review
Chapter 15: Waste - What Happens to All the Stuff We Use?
15.1: What Is Waste?
15.2: What Happens When Waste Is Dumped?
15.3: How Do We Manage Waste?
15.4: How Do We Recycle and Reuse Waste?
15.5: How Does Our Culture Affect Consumption?
15.6: Can We Reduce Our Waste?
15.7: What Can I Do?
Chapter 15 Review
Chapter 16: Urbanization - Why Are Cities Growing?
16.1: How Are Urban Areas Changing?
16.2: What Are Slums?
16.3: What Is Suburban Sprawl?
16.4: How Did Suburban Sprawl Develop in the United States?
16.5: What Is Urban Planning?
16.6: Why Is Transportation Important?
16.7: How Are Cities Changing?
16.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 16 Review
Chapter 17: Environmental Health and Justice - How Do Environmental Factors Affect the Places People Live, Work, and Play?
17.1: How Are Environmental Benefits and Burdens Distributed?
17.2: What Is the Study of Environmental Health?
17.3: How Do Microorganisms Make Us Sick?
17.4: What Does It Mean When Something Is Toxic?
17.5: How Can I Be Exposed to Something Toxic?
17.6: How Do We Manage Risks Associated with Toxins?
17.7: What Are the Most Common Physical Hazards in the Environment?
17.8: How Is Climate Change Affecting Environmental Health Issues?
17.9: Where Are Vulnerable Communities Located?
17.10: What Can I Do?
Chapter 17 Review
Chapter 18: Decision Making - Why Do Our Choices Matter?
18.1: What Are the Key Factors Influencing Our Decisions?
18.2: What Are Some Successful Strategies to Influence Behavior?
18.3: How Can Incentives Motivate Behavior?
18.4: How Important Are the Words We Use?
18.5: What Can I Do?
Chapter 18 Review
Chapter 19: Groups and Organizations - How Do We Work Together for Sustainability?
19.1: How Are We Connected?
19.2: Why Are Organizations Important for Change?
19.3: How Do Organizations Integrate the Ideal of Sustainability?
19.4: How Can Members within an Organization Facilitate Change?
19.5: How Can Those Outside an Organization Facilitate Change?
19.6: What Can I Do?
Chapter 19 Review
Chapter 20: Government - How Can Policy Influence Sustainability?
20.1: How Are We All Subject to Government Decisions?
20.2: Why Is the Way a Government Is Organized Important?
20.3: How Do Elections Shape Government?
20.4: How Are Environmental Policies Made?
20.5: How Are Policies Designed to Influence Behavior?
20.6: How Did Important Environmental Policies in the United States Develop?
20.7: How Are Environmental Issues Addressed on the International Scale?
20.8: What Can I Do?
Chapter 20 Review
Appendix
Selected Answers
Selected Sources
Glossary
Credits
Index