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  • Captivating stories in each of the 31 modules, organized into chapters, follows an engaging, real story that illustrates and motivates cadre science concepts. Magazine-like photos and layout bring the story to life.
  • Infographics provide the scientific background students need to empathize the environmental science concepts. Clear and concise captions and callouts help students interpret data. Critical Thinking Questions accompany each infographic, encouraging students to explore concepts more deeply, while fostering scientific literacy.
  • Effective pedagogy promotes student learning throughout the text. Each module begins with a series of Guiding Questions that focus students on the affiliate's key scientific content. Key Concepts appear in each section and correspond to the Guiding Questions, re-emphasizing the chapter's essential scientific ideas. Infographics and section headings are tagged with icons that chronicle them to the Guiding Questions.
  • New Revisit the Concepts end-of-module section features a bulleted list of key concepts for review.
  • Revised Ecology Literacy: Understanding the Issue end-of-module section, eliminates multiple choice questions in favor of open up-concluded questions. Answers are available online as an instructor resource.
  • Bring it Abode boxes in every module provides students with ways they can make a difference: individually, as a grouping, and by influencing policy.
  • Global Example Studies highlight related stories effectually the world, considering events are more compelling when they happen in your own backyard.

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    New to this Edition Overview

    • 7 new stories, updates to all returning stories
    • Expanded fabric on important topics such as the Planetary Boundary Concept, media literacy, geological hazards, food deserts, and soil ecosystems
    • New pedagogical features such as "Revisit the Concepts" summaries and open-ended Environmental Literacy questions
    • Updated statistics and data, as well as general updates to environmental issues and policies


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    • Module 5.3 - Managing Solid Waste material: New atomic number 82 story "Microplastics"presence of microplastics in the Great Lakes
    • Module six.1 - Freshwater Resources: New lead story "Water Wars" on h2o wars in the Colorado River Basin; moved discussion of the Flint, Michigan water crisis to this module (formerly in Module 1.3 of the 3e)
    • Module seven.1 - Mineral Resource: New lead story "Balancing Green Engineering science with Ecology Costs" on the Chilean lithium mining manufacture and its environmental and societal impacts
    • Module 8.1 - Banking on Seeds: New pb story on the Millennium Seed Depository financial institution in England as protection against plant extinctions
    • Module 8.2 - Farming similar an Ecosystem: New lead story on an integrated rice and duck farm in Vermont
      Online Module viii.3 - Sustainable Agriculture/Raising Livestock: New atomic number 82 story on regenerative farming to raise livestock at a family farm in Tennessee
    • Module eleven.ii - Sustainable Energy/Stationary Sources: New pb story on Chicago's efforts toward a 100% clean energy futurity

    New Topics

    • Addition of the new international benchmark of the Planetary Boundary Concept and its framework into Module 1.ane's Introduction to Environmental ScienceAddition of "media literacy" to the information literacy discussion (now in Module 1.2)
    • Improver of geological hazards into Module 7.ane, as well equally fundamentals of geology
    • Addition of "food deserts" to Module 8.1
    • Expanded the coverage of soil to include the microbiota of soil ecosystems and soil health in Module 8.two (with additional mention in Online Modules 7.3 and 8.3)

    New Pedagogical Elements

    • New Revisit the Concepts end-of-module department features a bulleted listing of key concepts for review.
    • Revised Environmental Literacy: Understanding the Effect end-of-module section, eliminates multiple pick questions in favor of open-ended questions. Answers are available online as an instructor resources.
    • Visual alignment of beginning-of-module Guiding Questions with exclusive Key Concepts and end-of-module
    • Revisit the Concepts summaries and Ecology Literacy content assessments to necktie the different report aides together.

    Changes to Table of Contents

    • Combined topics of the Process of Science (3e'southward 1.ii), Information Literacy and Media Literacy (3e's 1.3) into the new Module 1.2 (resulting in deletion of previous Module 1.three)
    • Combined topics of Environmental Health (3e'south 4.3) and Toxicology (3e's 1.3) into the new Module 4.3 (resulting in deletion of 3e'due south Module 1.three)
    • Combined the topic of Mineral Resource with the fundamentals of geology by folding 3e's Appendix 4 (Geology) into Module 7.1 (resulting in deletion of Appendix 4)
    • Moved discussion of industrial agronomics to Module 8.ane (from Modules 8.1 and viii.2)

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    Table of Contents

    Brief CONTENTS

     CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Environmental, Science, and Information Literacy
    MODULE one.1 Environmental LITERACY AND SUSTAINABILITY
    LESSONS FROM A VANISHED Order
    MODULE 1.2  THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE
    FUNGAL Aggressor THREATENS BATS

     Affiliate 2 Ecology
    MODULE 2.1 ECOSYSTEMS AND Food CYCLING
    Engineering science EARTH
    MODULE 2.ii POPULATION Environmental
    GRAY WOLVES Return TO YELLOWSTONE
    MODULE ii.3 Community ECOLOGY
    THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES: A Customs IN Crunch

     Affiliate 3 Development and Biodiversity
    MODULE 3.one EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION
    A TROPICAL MURDER MYSTERY
    MODULE 3.2 BIODIVERSITY
    PALM OIL PLANTATIONS THREATEN TROPICAL FORESTS
    ONLINE MODULE iii.3 PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY
    A Forest WITHOUT ELEPHANTS

     Affiliate 4 Human Populations and Environmental Health
    MODULE iv.1 Man POPULATION
    THE KERALA MODEL
    MODULE iv.2 URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
    CREATING GREEN CITIES
    MODULE 4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TOXICOLOGY
    ERADICATING A PARASITIC NIGHTMARE

     CHAPTER 5 Managing Resources: Ecology Economics and Policy
    MODULE v.1 ECOLOGICAL Economic science AND CONSUMPTION
    WALL TO WALL, CRADLE TO CRADLE
    MODULE 5.ii Ecology POLICY
    THE WORLD TACKLES OZONE DEPLETION
    MODULE 5.3 MANAGING SOLID WASTE
    MICROPLASTICS

     CHAPTER 6 Water Resources
    MODULE half-dozen.1 FRESHWATER Resource
    Water WARS
    MODULE 6.ii WATER POLLUTION
    SUFFOCATING THE GULF
    ONLINE MODULE 6.3 MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
    Body of water ACIDIFICATION: THE "OTHER" CO2 PROBLEM

     CHAPTER vii Geological and Land Resources
    MODULE vii.one MINERAL Resources
    BALANCING GREEN TECHNOLOGY WITH Environmental COSTS
    MODULE seven.2 FOREST Resources
    RETURNING TREES TO HAITI
    ONLINE MODULE 7.3 GRASSLANDS
    RESTORING THE RANGE

     CHAPTER 8 Food Resources
    MODULE viii.i FEEDING THE WORLD
    Banking ON SEEDS
    MODULE viii.ii SUSTAINABLE Agriculture: RAISING CROPS
    FARMING LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM
    ONLINE MODULE 8.iii SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: RAISING LIVESTOCK
    CAN A SUSTAINABLE DIET INCLUDE MEAT?
    ONLINE MODULE eight.iv FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
    FISH IN A WAREHOUSE?

     Affiliate ix Conventional Energy: Fossil Fuels
    MODULE ix.1 COAL
    BRINGING Down THE MOUNTAIN
    MODULE ix.2 OIL AND NATURAL GAS
    THE BAKKEN OIL BOOM

     CHAPTER ten Air Quality and Climate Change
    MODULE 10.1 AIR POLLUTION
    THE YOUNGEST SCIENTISTS
    MODULE 10.two CLIMATE Alter
    CLIMATE REFUGEES

     CHAPTER 11 Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
    MODULE eleven.one NUCLEAR POWER
    THE Futurity OF FUKUSHIMA
    MODULE 11.2 SUSTAINABLE Free energy: STATIONARY SOURCES
    MOVING TOWARD A RENEWABLE Free energy Futurity
    ONLINE MODULE 11.3 SUSTAINABLE Free energy: MOBILE SOURCES

    Susan Karr

    Susan Karr, MS, is an Instructor in the Biology Department of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson Metropolis, Tennessee, and has been teaching for over 15 years. She has served on campus and community environmental sustainability groups and helps produce an almanac "State of the Surround" study on the environmental health of her county. In addition to teaching non-majors courses in environmental science and human biology, she teaches an upper-level course in animal beliefs where she and her students train dogs from the local fauna shelter in a program that improves the animals' chances of adoption. She received degrees in Brute Behavior and Forestry from the University of Georgia.

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