Sustaining the Earth: An Integrated Approach (Wadsworth Biology Series)

Aimed at environmental science courses, this book offers an integrated approach that emphasizes solutions. The book treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from natural sciences such as biology, chemistry and geology, and social sciences such as economics, politics and ethics to present an idea of how nature works and how things are interconnected. The text uses basic scientific concepts to show how global, national and local environmental facts, problems, and possible solutions are related. It discusses and evaluates opposing sides of major environmental issues and treatments.