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Essentials of Environmental Science de Andrew Friedland

Essentials of Environmental Science

Autor Andrew Friedland, Rick Relyea
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2015

Analiza proceselor geologice, a solurilor și a mineralelor din capitolul al șaselea subliniază rigoarea științifică a acestui volum, oferind studenților o bază solidă pentru înțelegerea resurselor terestre. În această a doua ediție a Essentials of Environmental Science, autorii Andrew Friedland și Rick Relyea au reușit să condenseze materia vastă a științelor mediului în doar 15 capitole, format ideal pentru parcurgerea într-un singur semestru universitar. Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care textul a fost simplificat: spre deosebire de edițiile anterioare sau de manualele tehnice exhaustive, această variantă pune un accent redus pe calculele matematice, prioritizând în schimb accesibilitatea și înțelegerea conceptuală. Structura volumului urmează o progresie logică, pornind de la fundamentele materiei și energiei, trecând prin dinamica populației umane și culminând cu soluții de politici publice și economie de mediu. Această organizare reflectă expertiza autorilor acumulată în lucrări precum Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP® Environmental Science Exam, unde accentul era pus pe fixarea conceptelor-cheie și pregătirea pentru evaluări. Totuși, dacă lucrările lor anterioare erau ghiduri de studiu aplicate, volumul de față reprezintă resursa teoretică centrală, oferind contextul științific necesar. Considerăm că Essentials of Environmental Science completează perspectiva oferită de Environmental Science ISE de Eldon Enger. În timp ce lucrarea lui Enger se concentrează pe interrelațiile dintre realitățile politice și sociale, Friedland și Relyea oferă o tratare mai fluidă și mai sintetică a științelor pure — agricultură, energie și apă — fără a supraîncărca cititorul cu detalii tehnice care ar putea distrage de la conceptele fundamentale de conservare și schimbare globală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781319065669
ISBN-10: 131906566X
Pagini: 444
Dimensiuni: 235 x 279 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.92 kg
Ediția:2nd edition
Editura: W. H. Freeman

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Recomandăm acest manual studenților și autodidacților care doresc o introducere clară și imparțială în știința mediului. Prin eliminarea barierelor matematice dificile și concentrarea pe date esențiale, Essentials of Environmental Science permite o înțelegere rapidă a provocărilor ecologice actuale. Este resursa perfectă pentru un curs scurt, oferind instrumentele necesare pentru a analiza critic problemele de mediu, de la poluarea aerului la economia sustenabilă.

Descriere scurtă

At just 15 chapters, "Essentials of Environmental Science" is ideal for a one-semester course. It takes the same non-biased approach as its parent text, teaching students to think critically about data presented. In addition to being briefer, " Essentials" is even more accessible placing less emphasize on math calculations. The coverage of ecology, agriculture, energy, and water has also been streamlined to provide a more focused treatment of the science concepts.

Cuprins

Ch. 1  Introduction to Environmental Science
Ch. 2  Matter, Energy, and Change
Ch. 3  Ecosystem Ecology and Biomes
Ch. 4  Evolution, Biodiversity, and Community Ecology
Ch. 5  Human Population Growth
Ch. 6  Geologic Processes, Soils, and Minerals
Ch. 7  Land Resources and Agriculture
Ch. 8 Nonrenewable and Renewable Energy
Ch. 9  Water Resources and Water Pollution
Ch. 10 Air Pollution
Ch. 11 Solid Waste Generation and Disposal
Ch. 12 Human Health Risk
Ch. 13 Conservation of Biodiversity
Ch. 14 Climate Alteration and Global Change
Ch. 15 Environmental Economics, Equity, and Policy

Notă biografică

Andrew J. Friedland is The Richard and Jane Pearl Professor in Environmental Studies and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth. He was the founding chair of the Advanced Placement Test Development Committee (College Board) for Environmental Science. He has a strong interest in high school science education and in the early years of APES he participated in a number of trainer and teacher workshops at Kimball Union Academy, Dartmouth College, and elsewhere. During many of the last ten summers, he has guest lectured at the St. Johnsbury Academy (Vermont) AP Institute for Secondary Teachers. Friedland regularly teaches introductory environmental science and energy courses and has taught courses in forest biogeochemistry, global change, and soil science, as well as foreign study courses in Kenya. For more than two decades, Friedland has been researching the effects of air pollution (lead, nitrogen, sulfur, calcium) on high-elevation forests of New England and the Northeast. More recently, he has begun investigating the impact of individual choices and personal action on energy consumption and the environment.  Friedland has served on panels for the NSF and USDA Forest Service and has just finished serving on his third panel of the Science Advisory Board of the EPA. He has authored or coauthored more than fifty-five peer-reviewed publications and one book, Writing Successful Science Proposals (Yale University Press). Friedland received BAs in Biology and Environmental Studies and a PhD in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is passionate about saving energy and can be seen wandering the halls of the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth with a Kill-A-Watt meter, determining the electricity load of vending machines, data projectors, and computers.
Rick Relyea is Director of the Jefferson Project at Lake George for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a groundbreaking partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George. For the project, Relyea leads a team of Rensselaer scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and other experts who are using the latest in science and technology to understand, predict and enable a resilient ecosystem for nearby Lake George.
 
From 1999 to 2014, Relyea was at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2005, he was named the Chancellor's Distinguished Researcher and in 2014 he received the Tina and David Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence. From 2007-2014, Relyea served as the director of the university's field station, the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, where he oversaw a diverse set of ecological field courses and facilitates researchers from around the world.
 
Rick has taught thousands of undergraduate students in introductory ecology, behavioral ecology, and evolution. His research is recognized throughout the world and has been published in Ecology, Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, PNAS, and other leading ecological journals. The research spans a wide range of ecological and evolutionary topics including animal behavior, sexual selection, ecotoxicology, disease ecology, phenotypic plasticity, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and landscape ecology. Currently Relyea's research focuses on aquatic habitats and the diversity of species that live in these ecosystems.
 
David Courard-Hauri is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. At Drake, Dr. Courard-Hauri teaches courses on Environmental Science, Climate Change Science and Policy, Quantitative Methods in Environmental Decision Making, and Ecological Economics. With a PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University, and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princetons Woodrow Wilson School, Dr. Courard-Hauri seeks in his research to combine aspects of environmental science, economics, and public policy in his work modeling economic consumption and its environmental impacts. He walks to work, and in his spare time cares for a multitude of fruit trees and berries in his yard.