Environmental studies - Easton, Thomas A. (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012)
An overview of environmental studies -- Preservation vs. conservation -- Man and nature / George Perkins Marsh -- Hetch Hetchy Valley / John Muir -- Principles of conservation / Gifford Pinchot -- A Sand County almanac / Aldo Leopold -- Fundamental causes of environmental problems -- Prehistoric overkill: the global model / Paul S. Martin -- The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Lynn White, Jr. -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Ecosystems and ecosystem services -- Life and death of the salt marsh / John Teal and Mildred Teal -- Human domination of Earth's ecosystems / Peter M. Vitousek, Harold A. Mooney, and Jerry M. Melillo -- Ecosystems and human well-being / Millennium Ecosystem Assessment -- Energy -- Energy and ecosystems -- The annual energy budget of an inland lake / Chancey Juday -- Energy and the environment / John M. Fowler -- Renewable and nonrenewable energy -- A path to sustainable energy by 2030 / Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi -- Environmental degradation -- Forests, wilderness, and wildlife -- Sierra Club vs. Morton / William O. Douglas -- The trouble with wilderness, or, Getting back to the wrong nature / Willilam Cronon -- Biodiversity -- Executive summary from Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity -- Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services / Boris Worm et al. -- Rethinking rain forests: biodiversity and social justice / John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto -- Pollution -- Fumifugium: or the inconvenience of the aer and smoake of London dissipated / John Evelyn -- Controversy at Love Canal / Beverly Paigen -- Restoring rivers / Margaret A. Palmer and J. David Allen -- The rising sea / Orrin H. Pilkey -- Global warming and ozone depletion -- Summary for policymakers: climate change 2007: the physical science basis / The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- The most important number on earth / Bill McKibben -- Human health and the environment -- Food -- Could food shortages bring down civilization? / Lester R. Brown -- Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century / N.V. Fedoroff, et al. -- Chemicals -- The pesticide conspiracy / Robert Van Den Bosch -- Living downstream: an ecologist looks at cancer and the environment / Sandra Steingraber -- Our stolen future / Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers -- Environment and society -- Political and economic issues -- At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or, Why political question are not all economic, as seen in Arizona Law Review / Mark Sagoff -- Environmental justice for all / Robert D. Bullard -- Putting a value on nature's'free' services / Janet N. Abramowitz -- Population control controversies -- The human population explosion and the future of life / Dave Foreman -- Reproductive rights and wrongs / Betsy Hartmann -- Human carrying capacity / Joel E. Cohen -- Environmental ethics and worldviews -- The ethics of respect for nature / Paul W. Taylor -- Women's indigenous knowledge and biodiversity conservation / Vandana Shiva.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Environmental sciences; Environmental policy; Environmentalism; Ecology