| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
455 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Includes glossary. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-455) and index. |
| Contents |
1. A World in Crisis: Environment and Humanity in the 21st Century --- 2. Preparing to Understand Environmental Geography --- 3. Environment, Land Use and Sustainable Development --- 4. The Spread and Development of Human Population --- 5. Global Cycles and Systems --- 6. Ecosystems and the Bioclimatic Environment --- 7. The Human Population: Trends and Patterns --- 8. Agriculture, Food Production and Hunger --- 9. Energy Generation, Use, and the Environment --- 10. Atmospheric Environment and Land Use --- 11. Air Population: Patterns, Trends and Impacts --- 12. Hydrologic Environment and Land Use --- 13. Water Pollution: Patterns, Trends and Impacts --- 14. Hazardous Waste Production and Disposal --- 15. Soil, Land and Land Use --- 16. Biological Diversity and Land Use --- 17. Open-Land Resources:_ Forests, Rangelands, Parks and Preserves --- 18. Managing the Global Environment --- Appendices. |
| Summary |
"Offering a true geographic approach to environmental issues, this Third Edition of William Marsh and John Grossa's ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, LAND USE, AND EARTH SYSTEMS examines human-related environmental issues in the context of the processes and systems of physical geography. Throughout, the authors emphasize traditional themes of geography, such as the concept of an integrated planet; the principles of space, scale, and distributions; the idea of landscape as a human-environmental interplay; and the perspective of earth as a dynamic planet with many environmental opportunities, constraints, and risks."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Environmental geography.
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Environmental sciences.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Pollution.
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Physical geography.
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Earth (Planet) -- Environmental aspects.
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Environmental geography. (OCoLC)fst00912987
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| Added Author |
Grossa, John.
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| ISBN |
0471482803 (acid-free paper) |
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9780471482802 (acid-free paper) |
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