Small Footprint, Big Impact: Introduction to Environmental Science
Author: Elizabeth Jordan
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Published: 2016-08-10
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ISBN-13: 9781524907938
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Published: 2016-08-10
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ISBN-13: 9781524907938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Jordan
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Published: 2013-07-29
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781465224095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Jordan
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Published: 1753
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ISBN-13: 9781465283771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Small Footprint Big Impact
Author: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
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Published: 1753-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9781524911546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susannah Sandrin
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Published: 2015-05-22
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ISBN-13: 9781465266705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter K Dodds
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-02-06
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0231513046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries. Walter K. Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. He describes trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts of the past two centuries, such as greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species extinctions and introductions. Dodds also addresses less familiar developments, such as the spread of antibiotic resistant genes in bacteria and the concentration of pesticides in the Arctic and other remote ecosystems. He identifies fundamental human activities that have irreversible effects on the environment and draws on recent social science and game theory results to explain why people use more than their share. Past behavior indicates that as resources grow scarce, humans will escalate their use of what remains instead of managing their consumption. Humanity's Footprint paints a lively but ultimately sobering picture of our environmental predicament. Dodds calls for a consilient approach to socioenvironmental restoration that draws on new thinking from across disciplines to develop sustainable solutions to global environmental problems.
Author: Rosaly Byrd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-07-26
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1538135442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurèn DeMates offer an optimistic yet realistic perspective on our impact on the environment, giving much needed guidance to those who are interested in finding new and relatively easy ways to incorporate sustainability into daily life. An excellent resource for those who are interested in learning what sustainability is about and picking up habits to be more sustainable, Sustainability Made Simple shows that adopting a sustainable lifestyle doesn’t require “going off the grid” or making drastic life changes that take time and cost money. Instead, Byrd and DeMates focus on the advantages and transformative changes associated with sustainability, demonstrating that although society is facing unprecedented environmental challenges, working towards sustainability is an opportunity to do things differently and do things better, enhancing aspects of life, such as health, work and community.
Author: Nicky Chambers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317972171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.