Table of Contents

Part One Environmental Science and Ecological Principles

Chapter 1 Understanding Our Environment

Chapter 2 Tools for Building a Better World

Chapter 3 Matter, Energy, and Life

Chapter 4 Biological Communities and Species Interactions

Chapter 5 Biomes, Landscapes, Restoration, and Management

Part Two Population, Economics, and Environmental Health

Chapter 6 Population Dynamics

Chapter 7 Human Populations

Chapter 8 Ecological Economics

Chapter 9 Environmental Health and Toxicology

Part Three Food, Land, and Biological Resources

Chapter 10 Food, Hunger, and Nutrition

Chapter 11 Soil Resources and Sustainable Agriculture

Chapter 12 Pest Control

Chapter 13 Biodiversity

Chapter 14 Land Use: Forests and Rangelands

Chapter 15 Preserving Nature

Part Four Physical Resources

Chapter 16 The Earth and Its Crustal Resources

Chapter 17 Air, Climate, and Weather

Chapter 18 Air Pollution

Chapter 19 Water Use and Management

Chapter 20 Water Pollution

Chapter 21 Conventional Energy

Chapter 22 Sustainable Energy

Part Five Society and the Environment

Chapter 23 Solid, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste

Chapter 24 Urbanization and Sustainable Cities

Chapter 25 What Then Shall We Do?

Appendix A Units of Measurement Metric/English Conversion

Appendix B Environmental Work, Study, and Travel Organizations

Appendix C Environmental Organizations

Appendix D United States Government Agencies

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