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• Introduction. Data Attributes. Error Analysis. Statistics. Data Sampling. Linear Regression. Linear Regression by Matrix Inversion. Basic Digital Data Analysis. Data Inversion or Modeling. Trial-and-Error Methods. Array Methods. Spectral Analysis. Data Interrogation. Data Graphics. Key Concepts.
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Classroom tested and the result of over 30 years of teaching and research, this textbook is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and graduate data analysis courses in environmental sciences and engineering. It is also a useful reference on modern digital data analysis for the extensive and growing community of Earth scientists and engineers. Basic Environmental Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers introduces practical concepts of modern digital data analysis and graphics, including numerical/graphical calculus, measurement units and dimensional analysis, error propagation and statistics, and least squares data modeling. It emphasizes array-based or matrix inversion and spectral analysis using the fast Fourier transform (FFT) that dominates modern data analysis. Divided into two parts, this comprehensive hands-on textbook is excellent for exploring data analysis principles and practice using MATLAB (R), Mathematica, Mathcad, and other modern equation solving software. Part I, for beginning undergraduate students, introduces the basic approaches for quantifying data variations in terms of environmental parameters. These approaches emphasize uses of the data array or matrix, which is the fundamental data and mathematical processing format of modern electronic computing. Part II, for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, extends the inverse problem to least squares solutions involving more than two unknowns. Features: Offers a uniquely practical guide for making students proficient in modern electronic data analysis and graphics Includes topics that are not explained in any existing textbook on environmental data analysis Data analysis topics are very well organized into a two-semester course that meets general education curriculum requirements in science and engineering Facilitates learning by beginning each chapter with an 'Overview' section highlighting the topics covered, and ending it with a 'Key Concepts' section summarizing the main technical details that the reader should have acquired Indexes many numerical examples for ready access in the classroom or other venues serviced by electronic equation solvers like MATLAB (R), Mathematica, Mathcad, etc. Offers supplemental exercises and materials to enhance understanding the principles and practice of modern data analysis.
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The region comprised of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is well known for its abundant natural resources and important geostrategic position. That image, however, is often overshadowed by ongoing sectarian violence and trans-boundary conflicts that threaten the stability of the entire region and dominate much of the global news cycle. Although the region's fragile environmental state has increasingly preoccupied policymakers in individual countries, there is as yet insufficient concerted effort to recognize and address problems relating to sustainability and climate change. And despite the urgency of these challenges, there are very limited academic resources, if any, dedicated to studying MENA's environmental future. Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region draws from the proceedings of a seminal international conference on the subject at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. The chapters in this book are predicated upon two critical premises: that expertise and awareness from a wide range of disciplines is required to understand and address environmental challenges; and that, to have a real chance of success, MENA countries need to confront these problems as common and shared threats. The interdisciplinary nature of this book mirrors the conclusion reached: that these nations must cooperate on all fronts in order to shape the future of their mutual environment.
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What is the "big picture" in environmental science? Our authors know and effectively communicate it in Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Sixth Edition. Whether you view the subject through a scientific, social, political, or historical lens, you'll find the concrete foundations here that work for courses in both environmental science and environmental studies. A systems approach is the connective fabric that makes sense of the wealth of topics and data, which demonstrates how aspects of the natural environment interconnect with each other and with human society. A section on Resource Use and Management introduces the concept of sustainability, and another on Dealing with Environmental Degradation discusses threats to the environment and mitigation strategies. A bonus section available online on Social Solutions to Environmental Concerns, discusses the complex issues impacting the environment and the scientific, technologic, and human behavioral ways to address them. Throughout the text you will find the hard data necessary for a scientific study of the environment and the measured analysis ideal for our time. Combining evidence-based, contemporary information and data with relevant case studies, practical applications, numerous calculations, and modern references, Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions teaches and engages.
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• Prologue: The migration north
• Whale country
• Whale fall
• The floating coast
• The waking ice
• The moving tundra
• The climate of change
• The unquiet earth
• Elements of redemption
• Caloric values
• Species of enlightenment
• Epilogue: The transformation of matter.

Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived, the area became the site of an experiment and the modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism were subject to the pressures of arctic scarcity. Demuth draws a vivid portrait of the sweeping effects of turning ecological wealth into economic growth and state power over the past century and a half. More urgent in a warming climate and as we seek new economic ideas for a post-industrial age, Floating Coast delivers warnings and poses provocative questions about human desires and needs in relation to environmental sustainability.
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• Introduction: "We are the wildfire"
• A hole in the world
• Capitalism vs. the climate
• Geoengineering: testing the waters
• When science says that political revolution is our only hope
• Climate time vs. the constant now
• Stop trying to save the world all by yourself
• A radical Vatican?
• Let them drown: the violence of othering in a warming world
• The leap years: ending the story of endlessness
• Hot take on a hot planet
• Season of smoke
• The stakes of our historical moment
• Capitalism killed our climate momentum, not "human nature"
• There's nothing natural about Puerto Rico's disaster
• Movements will make, or break, the green new deal
• The art of the green new deal
• Epilogue: The capsule case for a green new deal.

"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. These long-form essays show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one, as well. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of "perpetual now," to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of "climate barbarism," this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented "ecological conversion," Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis. An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal"-- Provided by publisher.
For more than twenty years Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet, and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. Here she gathers more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis. -- adapted from publisher info

• Contents: Part I Introduction to transdisciplinarity in environmental management research
• 1. Introduction: a research agenda for environmental management through transdisciplinary, social science-rich environmental governance research Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Chelsea Schelly, Robert M. Handler and Erin C. Pischke
• 2. Governing sustainability and environmental management: what, why, and how?
• Erin C. Pischke, Robert M. Handler and Jessie L. Knowlton
• 3. Power within and beyond the state: understanding how power relations shape environmental management
• Jesse Abrams, Diana Cordoba, Roman V. Sidortsov, Chelsea Schelly and Hugh S. Gorman Part II Integrating diverse sectors and disciplines into transdisciplinary environmental management research
• 4. Integrating across sectors and disciplines: transdisciplinary teamwork challenges and strategies
• Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Chelsea Schelly and Erin C. Pischke
• 5. Transdisciplinary research teams: broadening the scope of who participates in research
• Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, Lily House-Peters, Amarella Eastmond, Lucia Perez Volkow, Mayra del Carmen Fragoso Medina and Marcella Ohira
• 6. Administrative roles in environmental governance research: scientists incorporating policymakers
• Robert A. LaFave and Jennifer L. Dunn
• 7. Incorporating community: opportunities and challenges in community-engaged research
• Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle L. Winkler and Kirby Calvert
• 8. Crossing boundaries: cross-national, transdisciplinary research and teamwork
• Erin C. Pischke, Amarella Eastmond and Gabriela Alonso-Yanez Part III Case studies of transdisciplinary, social science-rich environmental management research
• 9. Policy, science, and transdisciplinary research: when will it be safe to eat as much fish as desired?
• Hugh S. Gorman, Valoree S. Gagnon, Amanda Giang, Judith A. Perlinger and Noel R. Urban
• 10. Lessons from the transdisciplinary, international BIOPIRE project Jennifer L. Dunn, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Theresa L. Selfa, David J. Flaspohler, Julian Licata, Ena E. Mata-Zayas, Rodrigo Medeiros, Cassandra Moseley, Erik A. Nielsen, Valentin D Picasso Risso, Julio C. Sacramento-Rivero, Tatiana de Souza, Cesar J. VazquezNavarrete and Nathan Basiliko
• 11. Applying transdisciplinary research to enhance low-to-moderate income households' access to community solar
• Brad Barnett, Emily W. Prehoda, Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle Winkler and Chelsea Schelly
• 12. In search for common ground: energy justice perspectives in global fossil fuel extraction
• Roman V. Sidortsov, Raphael J. Heffron, Tedd Moya Mose, Chelsea Schelly and Bethel Tarekegne
• 13. Understanding household conservation, climate change, and the food-energy-water nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective David Watkins, Rachael Shwom, Chelsea Schelly, Datu B. Agusdinata, Kristin Floress and Kathleen E. Halvorsen
• 14. A role-playing game development for supporting interventions to reduce household greenhouse gas emissions: transdisciplinary pathways and challenges
• Datu B. Agusdinata, Muhammad A. Hanif, Heide K. Lukosch, and Excel Ortega
• 15. Community implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater Ali Mirchi, Josiah Heyman, George Tchobanoglous, Daisuke Minakata, Shane Walker, Maryam Samimi, R. Brian Guerrero, Diego Sanchez, Robert Handler Index.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. We face many important global environmental problems today, including climate change, biodiversity destruction, and environmental health issues. Key among the tools we have to understand and solve these problems is research. This Research Agenda argues for a transdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental management to provide better understanding and outcomes leading to practical solutions. By describing the key strategies needed to overcome common global environmental challenges and to undertake successful interdisciplinary environmental research, this Research Agenda demonstrates the possibilities for successful transdisciplinary environmental research. A series of case studies shows how this transdisciplinary approach to research has improved understandings of environmental problems and their potential solutions. Discussing the types of participation required and the difficulties of incorporating diverse groups into research projects, this Research Agenda provides lessons in how to successfully undertake transdisciplinary research in order to meet these challenges. A Research Agenda for Environmental Management provides invaluable insights for interdisciplinary researchers in all fields affected by environmental management as well as students and scholars engaged in environmental research looking for ways to successfully integrate transdisciplinary approaches into their work.
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• Preface xi Author of the Book xiii Acknowledgments xv About the Companion Website xvii
• 1 Background to Risk Assessment and Management 1 1.1 The Case for Risk Assessment, Leading to Risk Management 1 1.2 The Need for Risk Quantification 3 1.3 Environmental Risk 5 1.4 A Measure of Quantifying Risk: Loss of Life Expectancy 5 1.5 Reliance on Environmental Data 6 1.5.1 Characteristics of Data 6 1.5.2 Indications of the Sources of Variability in Environmental Data 7 1.5.3 Independence of Successive Data Values 8 1.5.4 Uncertainties and Errors in Environmental Quality Data 9 1.6 Some Summary Indications of Approaches for Statistical Analyses 11 1.7 Overview of Book Content 12 1.8 References 12 1.9 Problems 13 Part I Methodologies for Risk Characterization 15
• 2 Introduction to Risk Assessment 17 2.1 Challenges in Risk Assessment 17 2.2 Categories of Risk 19 2.3 De Minimis Risk 20 2.4 Toxicological Versus Epidemiological Data 22 2.5 Basics of Environmental Risk Assessment 23 2.6 Estimating Intake (Dose) 24 2.7 Calculating the Risk for Noncarcinogens 26 2.8 Calculating Risks for Carcinogens 31 2.8.1 Background to Classification System for Carcinogens 31 2.8.2 Calculating Risk from Carcinogens 31 2.8.3 Generalization to Allow Quantification of Exposure Assessment for Other Scenarios 35 2.8.3.1 Construction/Utility Worker 36 2.9 Ecological Risk Assessment 43 2.10 Issues of Uncertainties in Risk 48 2.11 References 48 2.12 Problems 49
• 3 Factors Influencing the Assessment and Management of Risk 55 3.1 Background for Some of the Issues Influencing Risk Assessment and Management 55 3.2 Issues of Perception Versus Reality in Risk Assessment 55 3.2.1 Influential Roles of the Public 55 3.2.2 Differences in Risk Characterization: Public Perception Versus the Reality of Risk 56 3.2.3 Characteristics of Risk Which Influence Risk Perception 60 3.2.3.1 People's Behavior 61 3.2.4 Magnitudes and Consequences of Risk Influence People's Willingness to Accept Risk 61 3.2.5 Examples of Trade?]Offs Between Contributing Factors 62 3.2.5.1 Underestimation of Risk 63 3.2.5.2 The Influence of Voluntary and Involuntary Aspects of Risks 65 3.2.5.3 Dreadfulness of the Outcome 65 3.2.5.4 Visibility of the Hazard 65 3.2.5.5 Media Influences on Perception of Risks 65 3.3 Qualitative Risk Characterization and Probability-Impact Matrix Procedures 66 3.3.1 Introduction to Probability-Impact Matrix Procedures 66 3.3.2 Issues with the Risk Matrix Approach 69 3.4 Microbial Risk Assessment 69 3.5 References 74 3.6 Problems 75
• 4 Characteristics of Environmental Quality Data 79 4.1 Background to Data 79 4.2 Characteristics of Environmental Quality Data 80 4.2.1 Indications of the Sources of Variability in Environmental Data 80 4.2.2 Independence of Successive Data Values 81 4.2.3 Uncertainties and Errors in Environmental Quality Data 82 4.3 Some Summary Indications of Approaches for Statistical Analyses 84 4.4 Samples and Populations 85 4.5 Probability and Statistics 86 4.6 Graphical Data Descriptors 86 4.6.1 Histograms of Data 87 4.6.2 Probability Density Functions 87 4.6.3 Cumulative Distribution Functions 89 4.7 Summary Measures of the Distribution of Data 91 4.7.1 Measures of Central Tendency 91 4.7.2 Measures of the Dispersion of Data: Variance, Standard Deviation, and Range 94 4.7.3 Skewness 97 4.7.4 Kurtosis 98 4.7.5 Some Summary Comments 99 4.8 Further Summary Measures of the Distribution of Data 100 4.8.1 Coefficient of Variation 100 4.8.2 Standard Error of the Mean 101 4.8.3 Standard Errors 102 4.8.4 Summary Descriptors 103 4.9 Conditional Probability and Bayes Theorem 103 4.9.1 Basic Probability Concepts 103 4.9.2 Bayes' Theorem 105 4.10 Summary 106 4.11 References 106 4.12 Problems 107 Part II Characterization of Common Distributions 109
• 5 The Normal or Gaussian Distribution 111 5.1 Introduction 111 5.2 The Mathematics of the Normal Distribution 112 5.3 Tests for Normality 115 5.3.1 Coefficient of Variation Test for Normality 116 5.3.2 Skewness and Kurtosis Coefficient Tests for Normality 119 5.3.3 Probability Plots 119 5.3.4 The Chi?]Square Goodness?]of?]Fit Test 125 5.3.5 The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness?]of?]Fit Test 128 5.3.6 The Shapiro-Wilk W Test 130 5.3.7 The Shapiro-Francia Test 134 5.3.8 Data Transformations 135 5.3.9 Summary of Goodness?]of?]Fit Tests 135 5.4 The t?]Distribution 136 5.5 Extent of Use of the Normal Distribution 136 5.6 Summary Comments 136 5.7 References 136 5.8 Problems 137
• 6 The Lognormal Distribution 141 6.1 Introduction 141 6.2 Important Features of the Lognormal Distribution 141 6.2.1 The Central Limit Theorem 141 6.2.2 The Mathematics of the Lognormal Distribution 142 6.2.3 Probability Paper 145 6.3 Tests for Lognormality 147 6.4 Generation of Lognormal Concentration Data 148 6.5 References 149 6.6 Problems 150
• 7 Other Distributions Useful for Characterizing Environmental Quality Data 153 7.1 Introduction 153 7.2 The Poisson Distribution 153 7.3 Extreme Value Distributions 155 7.3.1 The Gumbel Distribution 156 7.3.2 Log Pearson Type III Distribution 158 7.4 References 160 7.5 Problem 161 Part III Hypothesis Testing of Environmental Quality 163
• 8 Identification of System Changes and Outliers Using Control Charts 165 8.1 Introduction 165 8.2 Tolerance Intervals 166 8.3 Confidence Intervals 173 8.3.1 Confidence Limits Using the Normal Distribution (and the t?]Distribution) 173 8.3.2 Confidence Limits for Lognormally Distributed Data 175 8.3.3 Distribution?]Free or Nonparametric Confidence Limits 175 8.4 Prediction Interval Characterizations 176 8.4.1 The t?]Distribution Prediction Intervals 176 8.5 Detection of Data Outliers 178 8.6 Summary of Approaches for Identifying Data Outliers 186 8.7 References 186 8.8 Problems 186
• 9 Hypothesis Testing: Testing Statistical Significance of Differences Between Data for Single Constituents 189 9.1 Introduction 189 9.2 Details of Hypothesis Testing 191 9.3 Steps for Significance Testing 193 9.4 Student's t?]Test 193 9.4.1 Development of the Equations 193 9.4.1.1 Comparing One Sample with the Population Mean 193 9.4.1.2 One?]Sided Versus Two?]Sided Tests 198 9.4.1.3 Comparing Two Samples for Significance of Difference 198 9.4.1.4 Assumptions Implicit in the t?]Test 199 9.4.2 Effect of Unequal Variances 201 9.4.2.1 Pooled Variance 204 9.4.3 Effect of Nonnormality on the Hypothesis Test 207 9.4.4 Assumption of Independence 208 9.4.5 Examples of t?]Test Applications 209 9.5 Acceptance and Rejection Regions 211 9.6 Power of the Discrimination Tests 213 9.6.1 Power of the t?]Test 215 9.7 Extensions of the t?]Test 216 9.7.1 Satterthwaite's Modified t?]Test 216 9.7.2 Cochran's Approximation to the Behrens-Fisher t?]Test 217 9.7.3 Paired t?]Test 218 9.7.4 Summary of Alternative Tests 223 9.8 References 223 9.9 Problems 224
• 10 Multiple Comparisons Using Parametric Analyses 227 10.1 Introduction 227 10.2 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 228 10.2.1 Development of the Null Hypothesis 228 10.2.2 Multiple Comparisons and Statistical Power 229 10.2.3 One?]Way ANOVA and Two?]Way Tests of ANOVA 229 10.3 Testing for Homogeneity of Variance 230 10.3.1 Box Plots 230 10.3.2 Levene's Test 230 10.3.3 Bartlett's Test 232 10.4 ANOVA Procedure 234 10.5 Two?]Way ANOVA 238 10.6 Iterations and Data Transformations 238 10.7 Concerns with Multiple Comparisons 239 10.8 Summary 239 10.9 References 240 10.10 Problems 240
• 11 Testing Differences Between Monitoring Records When Censored Data Records Exist 245 11.1 Introduction 245 11.2 Alternative Types of Censoring 246 11.3 Alternative Procedures for Statistical Analysis of Environmental Quality Datasets 250 11.3.1 Simple Substitution Methods 250 11.3.2 Test of Proportions 251 11.3.3 Plotting Position Procedure 253 11.3.4 Cohen's Test 254 11.3.5 Aitchison's Method 256 11.3.6 Maximum Likelihood Procedure 258 11.4 Multiple Detection Limits 259 11.5 References 259 11.6 Problems 260
• 12 Nonparametric Procedures 263 12.1 Introduction 263 12.2 Single Comparison Procedures 264 12.2.1 Mann-Whitney Test 264 12.2.1.1 Use of the Mann-Whitney Test to Test Equality of Variance 266 12.2.2 Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient 266 12.2.3 Sign Test for Paired Observations 267 12.3 Multiple Comparison Procedures 268 12.3.1 Kruskal-Wallis Test (or Nonparametric ANOVA) 268 12.3.2 Special Consideration of the Kruskal-Wallis Test 271 12.4 References 274 12.5 Problems 274 Appendix A 277 Index 309.
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A guide to the methodologies, typical mathematical notation, and assumptions used in risk assessment calculations Risk Assessment describes the methodologies, the math, and assumptions needed in risk assessment calculations and explores the various statistical analysis procedures that are used for estimating the parameters employed in risk assessment approaches. The author--a noted expert in the field--outlines a logical step-by-step approach to assessment: Identify a hazard; Analyze the risk associated with that hazard; and Determine if the elimination, or control of the risk is warranted. The text puts the focus on assessing environmental risk and describes the basics used in hypothesis testing to determine when there are differences in environmental quality at various locations. The author describes statistical techniques in approachable terms that are designed to be understandable to the non-statistician. The text downplays mathematical notation while offering clear explanations for the development of equations. It highlights applications with numerous examples of problems of censored data as they influence the use of alternative tests. In addition, the text focuses on both parametric and non-parametric procedures. This important resource: Describes in understandable terms the methodologies, typical mathematical notation, and assumptions used in risk assessment calculations Explores the fundamental calculation procedures and approaches for risk characterization Contains a wealth of example problems of interpretations of environmental monitoring results and shows how each procedure is used Includes problems at the end of each chapter that stress the fundamental concepts outlined Written for senior undergraduate and graduate students and as a course text in engineering, Risk Assessment offers a guide to the fundamental calculation procedures and methodologies for characterizing risk in clear and accessible terms.
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• 1. Science and Sustainability Our Island, Earth The Nature of Environmental Science The Nature of Science Sustainability and Our Future
• 2. Earth's Physical Systems Matter, Chemistry, and the Environment Energy: An Introduction Geology: The Physical Basis for Environmental Science Geologic and Natural Hazards
• 3. Evolution, Biodiversity, and Population Ecology Evolution: The Source of Earth's Biodiversity Ecology and the Organism Population Ecology Conserving Biodiversity
• 4. Species Interactions and Community Ecology Species Interactions Ecological Communities Earth's Biomes
• 5. Environmental Systems and Ecosystem Ecology Earth's Environmental Systems Ecosystems Biogeochemical Cycles
• 6. Ethics, Economics, and Sustainable Development Culture, Worldview, and the Environment Environmental Ethics Economics and the Environment Sustainable Development
• 7. Environmental Policy Environmental Policy: An Overview U.S. Environmental Law and Policy International Environmental Policy Approaches to Environmental Policy
• 8. Human Population Our World at Seven Billion Demography Population and Society
• 9. The Underpinnings of Agriculture The Changing Face of Agriculture Soil: A Foundation of Agriculture Water for Agriculture Nutrients for Plants Pollination Conserving Agricultural Resources
• 10. Making Agriculture Sustainable The Race to Feed the World Raising Animals for Food Preserving Crop Diversity and Pollinators Controlling Pests and Weeds Genetically Modified Food Organic Agriculture Sustainable Food Production
• 11. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Life's Diversity on Earth Benefits of Biodiversity Biodiversity Loss and Extinction Conservation Biology: The Search for Solutions
• 12. Forests, Forest Management, and Protected Areas Forest Ecosystems and Forest Resources Forest Loss Forest Management Parks and Protected Areas
• 13. The Urban Environment Our Urbanizing World Sprawl Creating Livable Cities Urban Sustainability
• 14. Environmental Health and Toxicology Environmental Health Toxic Substances and Their Effects on Organisms Toxic Substances and Their Effects on Ecosystems Studying Effects of Hazards Risk Assessment and Risk Management Philosophical and Policy Approaches
• 15. Freshwater Systems and Resources Freshwater Systems Solutions to Depletion of Fresh Water Freshwater Pollution and Its Control
• 16. Marine and Coastal Systems and Resources The Oceans Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Marine Pollution Emptying the Oceans Marine Conservation
• 17. Atmospheric Science, Air Quality, and Pollution Control The Atmosphere Outdoor Air Quality Ozone Depletion and Recovery Addressing Acid Deposition Indoor Air Quality
• 18. Global Climate Change Our Dynamic Climate Studying Climate Change Current and Future Trends and Impacts Responding to Climate Change
• 19. Fossil Fuels Sources of Energy Fossil Fuels: Their Formation, Extraction, and Use Reaching Further for Fossil Fuels Addressing Impacts of Fossil Fuel Use Energy Efficiency and Conservation
• 20. Conventional Energy Alternatives Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power Bioenergy Hydroelectric Power
• 21. New Renewable Energy Alternatives "New" Renewable Energy Sources Solar Energy Wind Power Geothermal Energy Ocean Energy Sources Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
• 22. Managing Our Waste Approaches to Waste Management Municipal Solid Waste Industrial Solid Waste Hazardous Waste
• 23. Minerals and Mining Earth's Mineral Resources Mining Methods and Their Impacts Toward Sustainable Mineral Use
• 24. Sustainable Solutions Sustainability on Campus Strategies for Sustainability Precious Time.
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For courses in introductory environmental science. Help Students Connect Current Environmental Issues to the Science Behind Them Environment: The Science behind the Stories is a best seller for the introductory environmental science course known for its student-friendly narrative style, its integration of real stories and case studies, and its presentation of the latest science and research. The 6th Edition features new opportunities to help students see connections between integrated case studies and the science in each chapter, and provides them with opportunities to apply the scientific process to environmental concerns. Also available with Mastering Environmental Science Mastering(TM) Environmental Science is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment system designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature personalized wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience and help keep students on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering(TM) Environmental Science does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Environmental Science, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering Environmental Science, search for: 0134145933 / 9780134145938 Environment: The Science behind the Stories Plus Mastering Environmental Science with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: *0134204883 / 9780134204888 Environment: The Science behind the Stories *0134510194 / 9780134510194 Mastering Environmental Science with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Environment: The Science behind the Stories.
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• PART I: HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW.
• 1. The Environment and Sustainability. PART II: SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
• 2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems.
• 3. Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?
• 4. Biodiversity and Evolution.
• 5. Species Interactions, Ecological Succession, and Population Control.
• 6. The Human Population and Its Impact.
• 7. Climate and Biodiversity.
• 8. Aquatic Biodiversity. PART III: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY.
• 9. Sustaining Biodiversity: Saving Species and Ecosystem Services.
• 10. Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: Saving Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services.
• 11. Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. PART IV: SUSTAINING NATURAL RESOURCES.
• 12. Food Production and the Environment.
• 13. Water Resources.
• 14. Geology and Mineral Resources.
• 15. Nonrenewable Energy.
• 16. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. PART V: SUSTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
• 17. Environmental Hazards and Human Health.
• 18. Air Pollution and Ozone Depletion.
• 19. Climate Change.
• 20. Water Pollution.
• 21. Solid and Hazardous Waste.
• 22. Urbanization and Sustainability. PART VI: SUSTAINING HUMAN SOCIETIES.
• 23. Economics, Environment, and Sustainability.
• 24. Politics, Environment, and Sustainability.
• 25. Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability. SUPPLEMENTS.
• 1. Measurement Units.
• 2. Reading Graphs and Maps.
• 3. Some Basic Chemistry.
• 4. Maps and Map Analysis.
• 5. Environmental Data and Data Analysis.
• 6. Geologic and Biological Time Scale.
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In the new edition of LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, authors Miller and Spoolman work with the National Geographic Society in developing a text that equips students with the inspiration and knowledge they need to make a difference in solving today's environmental issues. Using sustainability as the integrating theme, the 19th Edition provides clear introductions to multiple environmental problems and balanced discussions to evaluate potential solutions. New Core Case Studies bring important real-world stories to the forefront; questions added to the captions of figures that involve data graphs give students additional practice in evaluating data; and a new focus on learning from nature highlights principles and applications of biomimicry. The MindTap edition offers additional exclusive National Geographic content and includes a new Think Like an Environmental Scientist activity that introduces important research topics and gives students practice in using the process of science.
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This volume explores some recent thoughts and trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. The topics selected here are contemporary and offered in academic programs across the globe. This book is an essential reference work for those who are keen to conduct detailed research within the fields of environmental philosophy, environmental humanities, culture, public health, applied ethics, bioethics, and political philosophy, as well as the general reader interested in the ethical and philosophical issues that are transforming and touching our lives. The book uniquely focuses both western and non-western approaches.
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• Preface / Foreword / Acknowledgement / Environmental Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach / Environmental Communication and Public Awareness / Sustainable Development / Ecosystem / Natural Resources / Biodiversity and Conservation / Pollution / Global Environmental Issues: Climate Change / Environmental Policies and Practices / Human Pollution / Human Communities and Environment / Field Work / Bibliography / Index.
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BASICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE is written to meet the needs of the students studying Environmental Science. The main emphasis of the book is on Sustainable Development which is the need of the hour for the world. The eco-friendly technologies necessary for maintaining a healthy environment are discussed with the primary objective to generate awareness about environmental issues amongst the student community and the general public. The responsibility of citizens towards the environment is highlighted by the tips titled "What Can A Common Citizen Do?" With the help of the latest information and interesting case studies, the book gives a holistic account of different aspects of Environmental Science.The contents of the book are as per the newly introduced Credit Based Choice System (CBCS), dealing with varied topics of current environmental issues of interest to a wide range of readers. It describes scientific information in a very simple manner, so that the non-science readers can easily relate to it.
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• Approaching Critical Northern Issues Critically / Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier
• Whose Arctic? Who Cares? : Place, Responsibility, and Elegiac Purpose in the Eskimo Curlew Extinction Narrative / Elspeth Tulloch
• Raven's World : Eco-elegy and Beyond in a Changing North / Will Elliott
• "The Bear Who Began It" and the Metaphorics of Climate Change / Allison Athens
• Indigeneity and Ecology in I'upiat and Faroese Whaling / Russell Fielding
• Saving Polar Bears and Other Objects / Kurtis Boyer
• Bare Life and Bear Love : Masculinity, Capital and Arctic Animals in the Nineteenth-Century North / John Miller
• Northern Relations : Colonial Whaling, Climate Change, and the Inception of a Collective Identity in Northern Alaska and the Northern Atlantic / Chie Sakakibara
• Landscapes on Hold : The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North / Peter Hemmersen and Janike Kampevold
• Knowing Land, Quantifying Nature : Assessing Environmental Impacts in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories / Carly Dokis
• Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Richard Power's The Echo Maker / Kyndra Turner
• Surveillance and the Self : Two Sami Filmmakers Explore Indigenous and Personal Sovereignty Crossing Sami Borderlands / Cheryl Fish
• Arctic Exposure : Nature, Race, and Regional Representation in Hollywood Film / Susan Kollin
• Understanding Landscape Change Using Oral Histories and Tlingit Place Names / Dan Monteith
• Prospecting for Buried Narratives in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve / Margot Higgins.

For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we've conceived it and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region's human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
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• Part I. Ideas
• Part II. Environmentalism and environmental movements
• Part III. Population and consumption
• Part IV. Public goods and collective action
• Parv V. Values and justice
• Part VI. Environmental controversies.

Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the environment in society, such as: social mobilization on behalf of environmental objectives; the relationships between human population, economic growth and stresses on the planet's natural resources; debates about the relative effects of collective and individual action; and unequal distribution of the social costs of environmental degradation. Organized around key themes, with each section featuring questions for debate and suggestions for further reading, the book introduces students to the history of environmental studies, and demonstrates how the field's interdisciplinary approach uniquely engages the essential issues of the present. Instructor's Guide.
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• Table of content: Preface
• Chapter 1. Time Series Analysis 1.1. State Estimation 1.2. Power Spectrum 1.3. Optimal Filtering 1.4. State Space Models 1.5. Information Theory 1.6. Complex Networks
• Chapter 2. Dynamical Systems 2.1. State-Space Reconstruction 2.2. Determinism and Predictability 2.3. Embedding Methods 2.4. Lyapunov Exponents 2.5. Modelling and Forecasting 2.6. Chaos and nonlinear noise reduction
• Chapter 3. Approximation 3.1. Trigonometric Approximation 3.2. Polynomial Approximation 3.3. Spline Approximation 3.4. Rational Approximation 3.5. Wavelet Approximation 3.6. Multivariate Approximation 3.7. Dimensionality reduction 3.8. Adaptive Basis Selection and Greedy Algorithm
• Chapter 4. Interpolation 4.1. Curve Fitting 4.2. Lagrange Interpolation 4.3. Hermite Interpolation 4.4. Spline Interpolation 4.5. Case Studies
• Chapter 5. Satistical Methods 5.1. Linear Regression 5.2. Logistic Regression 5.3. Multiple Regression 5.4. Analysis of Covariance 5.5. Cluster Analysis 5.6. Discriminant Analysis. 5.7. Principal Component Analysis 5.8. Factor Analysis 5.9. SPSS software
• Chapter 6. Numerical Methods 6.1. Numerical Integration 6.2. Numerical Differentiation 6.3. Direct and Iterative Methods 6.4. Finite Difference Methods. 6.5. Finite Element Methods. 6.6. Finite Volume Methods 6.7. Wavelet Methods
• Chapter 7. Optimization 7.1. Steepest Descent and Newton methods 7.2. Linear optimization 7.3. Lagrange multipliers 7.4. Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions 7.5. Primal-dual interior-point method 7.6. The simplex method 7.7. Stochastic optimization
• Chapter 8. Risk Assessments
• Chapter 9. Life Cycle Assessments.
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The book introduces frequently-used mathematical methods, such as time series analysis, statistical methods, approximations, and optimization in analyzing environmental data and demonstrates their application in various case studies. Designed as a practical guide, it suits mathematicians who try to find the way into environmental science, and environmental scientists who struggle to conduct data analysis.
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Most environmental data involve a large degree of complexity and uncertainty. Environmental Data Analysis is created to provide modern quantitative tools and techniques designed specifically to meet the needs of environmental sciences and related fields. This book has an impressive coverage of the scope. Main techniques described in this book are models for linear and nonlinear environmental systems, statistical & numerical methods, data envelopment analysis, risk assessments and life cycle assessments. These state-of-the-art techniques have attracted significant attention over the past decades in environmental monitoring, modeling and decision making. Environmental Data Analysis explains carefully various data analysis procedures and techniques in a clear, concise, and straightforward language and is written in a self-contained way that is accessible to researchers and advanced students in science and engineering. This is an excellent reference for scientists and engineers who wish to analyze, interpret and model data from various sources, and is also an ideal graduate-level textbook for courses in environmental sciences and related fields. Contents: Preface Time series analysis Chaos and dynamical systems Approximation Interpolation Statistical methods Numerical methods Optimization Data envelopment analysis Risk assessments Life cycle assessments Index.
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• Part I: THEORY.
• 1. Introduction. Clare Palmer, Contested Frameworks in Environmental Ethics. Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments. Henry Shue, Global Environment and International Inequality.
• 2. Future Generations. Derek Parfit, Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem. Annette Baier, The Rights of Past and Future Persons. Richard B. Howarth, Intergenerational Justice.
• 3. Animal Rights. Immanuel Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth. Holly L Wilson, Green Kant: Kant's Treatment of Animals. Peter Singer, A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation. Tom Regan, The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights. Mary Anne Warren, A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory. Dale Jamieson, Against Zoos.
• 4. Nature and Naturalness. Holmes Rolston, III, Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species. Ned Hettinger, Comments on Holmes Rolston's Naturalizing Values". John Stuart Mill, Nature. Steven Vogel, Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature.
• 5. Individualist Biocentrism. Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life. Paul Taylor, Biocentric Egalitarianism. Robin Attfield, Biocentrism and Artificial Life. Jason Kawall, Reverence for Life as a Viable Environmental Virtue.
• 6. Holism. Arne Naess, The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement. Arne Naess, Ecosophy T: Deep Versus Shallow Ecology. Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology. Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic. J. Baird Callicott, The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic. Lawrence E. Johnson, Eco-Interests. Harley Cahen, Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems. Lilly-Marlene Russow, Why Do Species Matter? Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects.
• 7. Environmental Justice. Ramachandra Guha, Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique. Robert Bullard, Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decision Making. Peter S. Wenz, Just Garbage: The Problem of Environmental Racism. Marie Mies, Deceiving the Third World: The Myth of Catching-Up Development. Laura Westra, Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Some Possible Remedies. Linda Robyn, Indigenous Knowledge and Technology: Creating Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Vandana Shiva, Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation. Karen Warren, The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism. Laura Westra, The Earth Charter: From Global Ethics to International Law Instrument.
• 8. Sustainability. World Commission on Environment and Development, Towards Sustainable Development. William Rees, Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Global Realities. Mark Sagoff, At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic. John B. Cobb, Jr., Toward a Just and Sustainable Economic Order. Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster, Capitalism: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know. Alan Thein Durning, An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising. Louis P. Pojman, The Challenge of the Future: Private Property, the City, the Globe, and a Sustainable Society. Part II: PRACTICE.
• 9. Food Ethics. Mylan Engel, Jr., Hunger, Duty and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Human Beings. Tristram Coffin, The World Food Supply: The Damage Done by Cattle-Raising. Michael Fox, Vegetarianism and Planetary Health. Jonathan Rauch, Can Frankenfood Save the Planet? Mae Ho, Unholy Alliance: Critiques of Genetically Modified Foods. The ETC Report, The Poor can Feed Themselves. Marion Nestle, From "Eat More" to "Eat Less": 1900-1990. Alice Waters, Slow Food Nation. Eric Schlosser et al., One Thing to Do About Food.
• 10. Climate Change. Naomi Oreskes, The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong? UN Report on Climate Change Pollution, Livestock''s role in Climate Change and Air Pollution. Ashley Dawson, Climate Justice: The Emerging Movement against Green Capitalism. Evelyn Wright and Paul Pojman, Evaluating Technology Options. Stephen Gardiner, Ethics and Climate Change: An Introduction. David W. Keith, Engineering the Planet. Christopher J. Preston, Re-Thinking the Unthinkable: Environmental Ethics and the Presumptive Argument Against Geoengineering.
• 11. Population and Consumption. Bill McKibben, A Special Moment in History: The Challenge of Overpopulation and Overconsumption. Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons. Elinor Ostrom, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field, Richard B. Norgaard, David Policansky: Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Jacqueline Kasun, The Unjust War against Population. Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics. William Murdoch and Allan Oaten, Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics.
• 12. Pollution. Hilary French, You Are What You Breathe. George Bradford, We All Live in Bhopal. William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. David Pimentel, Is Silent Spring Beyond Us?".
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, 7th Edition presents the main issues in environmental ethics using a diverse set of readings arranged in dialogue format. The seventh edition of this popular anthology features selections from contemporary authors as well as readings from classic writers, all chosen for their clarity and accessibility. By exploring both sides of every topic, this edition helps students quickly grasp each subject and move from theory to application. Making this textbook even more enjoyable to read include new sections on Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Food Ethics, Nature and Naturalness, Sustainability, Population and Consumption, Future Generations, and Holism.
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• I. FRAMEWORK FOR A SUSTATAINABLE FUTURE
• 1. Science and the Environment
• 2. Economics, Politics, and Public Policy
• II. ECOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
• 3. Basic Needs of Living Things
• 4. Populations and Communities
• 5. Ecosystems: Energy, Patterns, and Disturbance
• 6. Wild Species and Biodiversity
• 7. The Use and Restoration of Ecosystems
• III. THE HUMAN POPULATION AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
• 8. The Human Population
• 9. Population and Development
• 10. Water: Hydrologic Cycle and Human Use
• 11. Soil: Foundation for Land Ecosystems
• 12. The Production and Distribution of Food
• 13. Pests and Pest Control
• IV. HARNESSING ENERGY FOR HUMAN SOCIETY
• 14. Energy from Fossil Fuels
• 15. Nuclear Power
• 16. Renewable Energy
• V. POLLUTION AND PREVENTION
• 17. Environmental Hazards and Human Health
• 18. Global Climate Change
• 19. Atmospheric Pollution
• 20. Water Pollution and Its Prevention
• 21. Municipal Solid Waste: Disposal and Recovery
• 22. Hazardous Chemicals: Pollution and Prevention
• VI. STEWARDSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
• 23. Sustainable Communities and Lifestyles
• Appendix A Environmental Organizations Appendix B Units of Measure Appendix C Units of Measure Credits Glossary Index.
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For introductory courses in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Biology. Equipping Learners to Understand the Roles of Science, Sustainability, and Stewardship The Thirteenth Edition of Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future retains its current content and memorable themes of Science, Sustainability and Stewardship while expanding on the reader-friendly approach with built-in tools that make Wright/Boorse a bestseller. Presenting the most current and relevant Environmental Science issues and research along with new Concept Check questions and Understand the Data questions, the text and MasteringEnvironmentalScience work together to help readers understand the science behind environmental issues. Also available with MasteringEnvironmentalScience(TM). MasteringEnvironmentalScience is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment system designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature personalized wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience and help keep students on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts. For the Thirteenth Edition, MasteringEnvironmentalScience has been significantly updated to include new video assignments that expose students to real environmental issues and new coaching activities that help students build science literacy skills. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MasteringEnvironmentalScience does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringEnvironmentalScience, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase boththe physical text and MasteringEnvironmentalScience, search for: 013394591X / 9780133945911 Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future Plus MasteringEnvironmentalScience with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: *0134011279 / 978013401127 Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future*0134245601 / 9780134245607 MasteringEnvironmentalScience with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future.
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• Mourning the loss of wild soundscapes : a rationale for context when experiencing natural sound / Bernie Krause
• Environmental mourning and the religious imagination / Nancy Menning
• Mourning ourselves and/as our relatives : environment as kinship / Sebastian F. Braun
• In the absence of sparrows / Helen Whale and Franklin Ginn
• Where have all the Boronia gone? A posthumanist model of environmental mourning / John Charles Ryan
• Losing my place : landscapes of depression / Catriona Sandilands
• Climate change as the work of mourning / Ashlee Cunsolo
• Auguries of elegy : the art and ethics of ecological grieving / Jessica Marion Barr
• Making loss the centre : podcasting our environmental grief / Andrew Mark and Amanda Di Battista
• Emotional solidarity : ecological emotional outlaws mourning environmental loss and empowering positive change / Lisa Kretz
• Solastalgia and the new mourning / Glenn Albrecht.

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation - challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce new perspectives on conservation, sustainability, and our relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change. Contributors include Glenn Albrecht (Murdoch University, retired); Jessica Marion Barr (Trent University); Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota); Ashlee Cunsolo (Labrador Institute of Memorial University); Amanda Di Battista (York University); Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh); Bernie Krause (soundscape ecologist, author, and independent scholar); Lisa Kretz (University of Evansville); Karen Landman (University of Guelph); Patrick Lane (Poet); Andrew Mark (independent scholar); Nancy Menning (Ithaca College); John Charles Ryan (University of New England); Catriona Sandilands (York University); and Helen Whale (independent scholar).
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