Environmental Issues and Solutions: A Modular Approach, International Edition - Softcover

Scott Spoolman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1435462327 ISBN 13: 9781435462328

Publisher: Brooks/Cole, 2013

Synopsis

Environmental Issues And Solutions: A Modular ApproachbyScott Spoolman, 9781435462328, Cengage, Paperback, Paperback

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About the Author

Scott Spoolman is a writer with more than 30 years of experience in educational publishing. He has worked with Tyler Miller since 2003 as a coauthor on editions of LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, and SUSTAINING THE EARTH. With Norman Myers, he also coauthored ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS: A MODULAR APPROACH. Spoolman holds a master's degree in science journalism from the University of Minnesota. He has authored numerous books and articles in the fields of environmental science, geology and natural history, politics, and business. He worked as an acquisitions editor on a series of college forestry textbooks. He has also worked as a consulting editor in the development of over 70 college and high school textbooks in fields of the natural and social sciences. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the forests and waters of his native Wisconsin along with his family- his wife, environmental educator Gail Martinelli, and his son Will and daughter Katie. As an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, Norman Myers has been a pioneer in identifying and looking for solutions to some of the world's major environmental problems. Myers has carried out research and worked as an environmental consultant in more than 50 countries. He has also served as a visiting professor at more than 20 colleges and universities. Myers' pioneering research led him to estimate that we were losing one species every day, on average. He helped alert the world to the destruction of tropical forests, explained the economic and ecological reasons for preserving biodiversity, and co-authored a groundbreaking interdisciplinary book describing the state of the planet (published in 1984 and updated in 2005). In addition, Myers originated the idea of preserving biodiversity by identifying and protecting biodiversity hotspots, and he has written of the need for environmental security as a basis for political stability, perverse government subsidies and how they harm the environment, and institutional roadblocks that have blocked many solutions to environmental problems. Myers has written 20 books that have seen sales of more than 1 million copies in 11 language, 300 professional papers in scientific journals, and more that 300 popular articles in newspapers and magazines. He has also served as an adviser to many academic bodies, governments, and international agencies, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the White House, NASA, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the U.S. Departments of State, Defense and Energy. Myers has received more than 20 major environmental awards and honors, including the Blue Planet Prize, the UNEP Environment Prize, and the Volvo Environment Prize.

Review

1. Environmental Science and Sustainability. 2. Population Growth. 3. Urbanization. 4. Food Resources. 5. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 6. Nonrenewable Energy. 7. Mineral Resources. 8. Species Extinction. 9. Land Degradation. 10. Water Resources. 11. Water Pollution. 12. Air Pollution. 13. Climate Change. 14. Wastes. 15. Environmental Health Hazards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks/Cole
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1435462327
• ISBN 13: 9781435462328
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English