Just as a Global Positioning System helps you steer your car through systems of roads and highways, Environment, 6th Edition helps you navigate the interconnected-environmental systems presented in your environmental science course. By taking you from general principles to specific applications, Environment, 6th Edition helps you direct your path to understanding today's interrelated issues in environmental science. Environment, 6th Edition effectively blends solid scientific content with many examples of problems and solutions empowering you to make informed and responsible choices as you progress on your journey.
On your journey with Environment, 6th Edition you will: * Explore how the various aspects of the environment interact and connect, and thus how changes in one part of the environment can affect other parts. * Reach your own informed decisions on the various perspectives of environmental issues affecting the world today.
Plus, a wealth of resources are available to you online including: * WileyPLUS, a powerful online tool that provides you with an integrated suite of learning resources, including an online version of the text, in one easy-to-use website. * New "Campus EnviroNews" which connect current environment issues to students' lives on campus. * And additional information and resources, including real environmental news video footage from around the world and in your own geographic region and backyard.
I use this textbook for my intro to environmental studies class - it does an excellent job providing a blend of basic science, environmental law, and public policy. It's too expensive, but what are you gonna do...
This is a textbook. It's a great non-partisan contemporary review of the state of physical ecology, and the effects man's modern lifestyle has had on the earth.
The worst part about this textbook (other than the utterly depressing content but that's okay) is the formatting and how all the headers look the same, which makes it really hard to take notes on. Of course, I think that's just a personal problem. What sucks the most about the class I had to get this book for was I read the whole textbook and the prof doesn't even make us use it. Ugh.