Product Description: Climate Management focuses on changing human behavior as the first step toward a positive management system that will benefit current society and those to come. This new full-color resource explores human psychology and how cultural value systems, politics, and news dissemination affect people's opinions, thereby driving public response...read more

Product Description: Clean air is essential to life and good health. Several important pollutants are produced by fossil fuel combustion and emitted directly into the atmosphere. With an examination of fossil fuels as energy sources and the world population's reliance on them, this work outlines the connection of fossil fuels to global warming...read more

Product Description: While there are several factors that contribute to global warming, such as natural changes in the Earth's inclination and revolution around the sun, by far the biggest factor is the emission of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, and nitrous oxide are added at alarming rates to the atmosphere by daily human activity...read more

Product Description: Climate scientists have repeatedly told us that the 1990s had the warmest temperatures ever recorded since records were consistently kept in the mid-1800s. This title presents an overview of significant climatic periods of the Earth's past and introduces the concept of climate proxies, or natural indicators that can be used to infer past climate...read more

An eye-opening series focuses on the Earth's diverse natural wealth and its relationship with the environment and society, with each title highlighting a specific issue of conservation and showing readers how to ensure the availability of our planet's important resources long into the future.

An eye-opening series focuses on the Earth's diverse natural wealth and its relationship with the environment and society, with each title highlighting a specific issue of conservation and showing readers how to ensure the availability of our planet's important resources long into the future.

An eye-opening series focuses on the Earth's diverse natural wealth and its relationship with the environment and society, with each title highlighting a specific issue of conservation and showing readers how to ensure the availability of our planet's important resources long into the future.

An eye-opening series focuses on the Earth's diverse natural wealth and its relationship with the environment and society, with each title highlighting a specific issue of conservation and showing readers how to ensure the availability of our planet's important resources long into the future.

An eye-opening series focuses on the Earth's diverse natural wealth and its relationship with the environment and society, with each title highlighting a specific issue of conservation and showing readers how to ensure the availability of our planet's important resources long into the future.

Discusses why animals are such an important resource, describes the damage being done to them by current practices, and introduces things that can be done to protect them.

Uses a natural resources perspective to explore food production and agricultural practices, including discussion of soil conservation methods and farmland preservation issues.

Introduces basic botanical concepts, discusses why plants are such an important resource, describes the damage being done to plants by current practices, and introduces things that can be done to protect them.

Product Description: After leaving the Ute Reservation, 16-year-old Jheri Byrdsong discovers that moving to a small town isn’t easy. She embarks on a wilderness experience at Camp Weechquootee with a group of girls, including her best friend, Morgan, and her two worst nemeses, Stacia and Whitney...read more