A fascinating introduction to the environment - the air, soil, water, plants and animals. How do our actions affect the environment and what on Earth can we do about it?
Cleavage Many minerals have a tendency to break ( cleave ) along smooth , flat planes . Different minerals have a different number and direction of cleavage planes . Mica , for example , has cleavage in only one direction ...
This book provides the results of an interdisciplinary seminar from 1967 in which researchers identify and define problems within the environment and present different avenues to correct them.
The Environment: Issues and Choices for Society
The Environment in World History offers a fresh environmental perspective on familiar world history narratives of imperialism and colonialism, trade and commerce, and technological progress and the advance of civilisation, and will be ...
The Environment
Literature survey providing a guide to selected aspects of the environment - covers environmental protection, ecology, quality of life, urban development, environmental modifications relating to water quality, nature conservation, transport ...
environmental policies requires sophisticated knowledge. There is a growing need, therefore, to rely on environmental experts—biologists, chemists, physicists, and so forth. ... Environmental Deceptions. Albany: State University of New ...
London , Earthscan Miller , G.T. jnr ( 1990 ) Living in the environment : an introduction to environmental science ( 6th edn ) . Belmont , Calif . , Wadsworth Publishing Company Miller , G.T. jnr ( 1991 ) Environmental science ...
This broad ranging and thought provoking set of readings stresses the diversity of responses in the way the natural environment has been understood and questioned in the modern world.
Berners-Lee, M., C. Hoolohan, H. Cammack, and C. N. Hewitt. 2012. “The Relative Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Realistic Dietary Choices.” Energy Policy 43: 184–190. Billington, C., V. Kapos, M. Edwards, ...