Features

• Three themes are woven through every chapter in the book: scientific thinking, active learning, and sustainability.
• Available to instructors adopting the third edition, a new Digital Content Manger CD-ROM will help you easily incorporate text-specific art, photos, tables, and animations into lecture presentations, websites, and printed classroom materials.
• Chapters also include boxes entitled
  What can you do? (lists of actions students can take to help solve environmental problems ) and Case studies (short illustrative examples that help understand issues).
• Central questions that underlie the entire text are "how would a scientist think about this problem?" And "how can we make informed decisions in the face of uncertainty?"
• Applications boxes--short exercises in calculation, graphing, experimental design, analytical thinking or other ways of handling data or applying important concepts--stress the "science" of environmental science.
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