Natural Resource Conservation: Pearson New International Edition: Management for a Sustainable Future

✍ Scribed by Daniel D. Chiras, John P. Reganold

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 663
• Edition: 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For introductory-level, undergraduate courses in natural resource conservation, natural resource management, environmental science, and environmental conservation.

 

This comprehensive text describes the ecological principles, policies, and practices required to create a sustainable future. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Glossary
1. Natural Resource Conservation and Management: Past, Present, and Future
2. Economics, Ethics, and Critical Thinking: Tools for Creating a Sustainable Future
3. Lessons from Ecology
4. The Human Population Challenge
5. World Hunger: Solving the Problem Sustainably
6. The Nature of Soils
7. Soil Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture
8. Integrated Pest Management
9. Aquatic Environments
10. Managing Water Resources Sustainably
11. Water Pollution
12. Fisheries Conservation
13. Rangeland Management
14. Forest Management
15. Plant and Animal Extinction
16. Wildlife Management
17. Sustainable Waste Management
18. Air Pollution
19. Global Warming and Climate Change
20. Acid Deposition and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
21. Nonrenewable Energy Resources: Issues and Options
22. Creating a Sustainable System of Energy: Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Appendix: The Nations of the World
Appendix: Common Conversions
Index
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