Environment: Problems and Solutions

by G. Tyler Miller Jr.

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH THAT EMPHASIZES This brief edition of Sustaining the Earth provides a primer of all the major environmental problems and offers the major solutions to these problems. This book treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, and geology and social sciences such as economics, politics, and ethics to present a general idea of how nature works and how things are interconnected. Millers environmental science books are used by over half of the courses in the country and outsell other environment books by more than 5 to 1.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

G. Tyler Miller Jr. has written or co-authored 60 editions of various textbooks for introductory courses in environmental science, basic ecology, energy, and environmental chemistry. Since 1975, Miller's books have been the most widely used textbooks for environmental science in the United States and throughout the world. Miller has a PhD from the University of Virginia and has received two honorary doctorate degrees for his contributions to environmental education. He taught college for 20 years and developed an innovative interdisciplinary undergraduate science program before deciding to write environmental science textbooks full time in 1975.