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This fascinating introduction to environmental studies explores contemporary issues such as drought, flooding, loss of biodiversity, ecosystem toxicity, and crop failure, while also offering the tools to understand the impacts, alternatives, and possible solutions. This fully updated and revised edition reflects the most current data, profiles the most pressing environmental hotspots both at home and abroad, and emphasizes that being informed is the key to meeting environmental challenges and affecting positive change.

Philip Dearden is a prolific and well-known geographer who teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. His research specialization is in conservation, in particular protected areas systems, and his work in this field has taken him around the world, though his focus has been on Canada and Southeast Asia. Currently Dearden's activity is centred on marine environments and he leads the Marine Protected Areas Research Group (MPARG) at the University of Victoria. In addition to co-authoring the first three editions of Environmental Change and Challenge, he has co-edited four editions of OUP's Parks and Protected Areas in Canada with Rick Rollins. Bruce Mitchell has been an OUP Canada author for over a decade, publishing five editions of Resource and Environmental Management in Canada as the volume's editor in addition to co-authoring the previous four editions of Environmental Change and Challenge. A professor of geography and environmental management at the University of Waterloo, Mitchell has studied water management for over 46 years and in 2005 was named a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada and the International Water Resources Association. He received the Massey Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2008.