Environmental science for dummies / Alecia M Spooner.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part 1: Demystifying science and the environment -- Investigating the environment -- Thinking scientifically: the scientific method and other ways of knowing -- What's the matter? living and nonliving material -- Making things happen: energy -- Studying the environment and your place in it -- Part 2: Living on earth's surface: ecosystems, biomes, and climate -- Exploring ecosystems -- Biogeography: how earth's climate shapes global ecosystem patterns -- Playing well with others: population biology -- Heating things up: living in a changing climate -- Part 3: Getting your needs met: earth's natural resources -- Water, water everywhere: freshwater resources -- This land belongs to you and me: land as resource -- Dishing it up: food resources -- Hitting the hard stuff: geologic resources and hazards -- Shifting gears: alternative energy -- Part 4: Giving a hoot: pollution and environmental quality -- Breathing room: addressing man-made air pollution -- Spilling over: water pollution -- What's your poison? toxins and infections disease -- Wading through the waste stream: solid and hazardous waste -- Part 5: Expanding the definition of sustainability -- Reevaluating the value of the environment -- Decolonizing environmental science -- Part 6: The parts of tens -- Ten international agreements on planetary stewardship -- The real-life examples of the tragedy of the commons.

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