Environment 8th Edition by Peter H. Raven, David M. Hassenzahl and Linda R. Berg describes comprehensive, systems-based environmental science issue with more in-depth information on systems approach, which emphasizes the interconnected nature of environmental science throughout the text.
The book is even more reader-friendly integrated learning system designed to help move from general concepts to specific applications and continues to focus on currency. It presents the basic facts, various perspectives on issues, and framework to help readers reach their own informed decisions in a changing marketplace.
Offering a more concise resource for environmental scientists, the book explores important environmental issues and shows how to apply this information on the job. It focuses on a systems approach, presenting a framework for thinking about environmental science. The recurring theme of global climate change as a system is integrated throughout the chapters, uncovering both the positive and negative roles that people play in that system.
Energy and Climate Change is a new, special chapter feature which relates energy and/or climate change to the topics in each chapter. At the end of the chapter is an Energy and Climate Change box. Linked with this feature are a video, video lecture launcher PowerPoint, and an Instructor s Manual piece. There are also callouts related to Energy and Climate Change that are easy to locate throughout the text by an icon a compact fluorescent light bulb superimposed over the sun.
Critical Thinking and Review Questions, many new to this edition, encourage critical thinking and highlight important concepts and applications. At least one question in each chapter provides a systems perspective. New to this edition is the inclusion of another question that relates climate and energy to the chapter and new Visual questions added to each chapter.
Additional downloadable audio podcasts from the Environmental News Network enable students to listen to influential figures discussing top questions in environmental science today Updated art program that reinforces and expands concepts discussed in the text. Numerous photographs and cartoons elaborate on relevant issues and add visual detail. Area maps feature insets of hemispheric locator maps.
Environmental scientists will also benefit from the revised art program. New photos and illustrations help reinforce concepts and make the material come to life.
More details about this book...
or
Download Environment by Peter Raven PDF Ebook :
0 comments:
Post a Comment