Product Description: Hardcover.Annotated Instructor's Edition.

Product Description: This lower cost, shorter book provides closely connected web applications. Flexible, streamlined, and efficient, each element in the System Edition is designed to maximize the advantages of its medium. Topics include: Ecosystems: Units of Stability; Ecosystems: How They Work; Ecosystems: Population and Succession; Ecosystems and Evolutionary Change; The Human Population: Demographics; Addressing the Population Problem; Soil and the Soil Ecosystem; Water: Hydrologic Cycle and Human Use; The Production and Distribution of Food; Wild Species: Biodiversity and Protection; Ecosystems as Resources; Energy from Fossil Fuels; Nuclear Energy: Promise and Problems; Renewable Energy; Environmental Hazards and Human Health; Pests and Pest Control; Water: Pollution and Prevention; Municipal Solid Waste: Disposal and Recovery; Hazardous Chemicals: Pollution and Prevention; The Atmosphere: Climate, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion; Atmospheric Pollution; Economics, Public Policy, and the Environment; Sustainable Communities and Lifestyles...read more

This sixth-edition text has a multi-media focus incorporating Internet links and a website. It is concerned with environmental issues and analyzes the scientific and society's response to these issues.