Ecoscience - Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, John Holdren

population, resources, environment

KORTE INHOUD

'Ecoscience', a brilliant survey of enviromental science, is the long awaited successor to 'Population, Resources, Environment'. The Ehrlich's have teamed up with John Holdren to produce a text that offers a greatly expanded coverage of all topics in environmental science. It is an inclusive source book that offers extensive, up-to-date information on population, resources, and energy and provides concrete strategiesz for dealing with the environmental crisis.
'Ecoscience' features a comprehensive introduction to basic ecological principles. It offers an expanded treatment of raw materials; a major section is devoted to energy problems; new coverage is given to geophysical and climatological aspects of the environment; and a provocative discussion of the possibilities of social, political, and economic change is also included.
Footnotes appear in the text allowing rapid documentation of key points, and there are generous annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter.
'Ecoscience' is a valuable textbook for...
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