Environmental Geography : Science, Land Use, and Earth Systems (3RD 05 Edition)

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.

Now updated and revised, this Third Edition features:

• A continuing theme of sustainability, with more emphasis on efforts by governments, corporations, private organizations, and individuals that are showing promise in bringing us into balance with the planet.
• 16 new case studies, 12 of which deal with sustainability issues.
• A revised organization. The first five chapters have been rearranged to provide a better flow of topics from issues and perspectives, to environmental foundation material, to factual matter on the condition of earth and its people.
• New material in several chapters, including the increasing role of NGO's in working out solutions to environmental problems from the global to the local level.
• Thoroughly updated statistics on population, energy, and food production.
• Revised graphics, including dozens of new photos.

Chapter 2: Preparing to Understand Environmental Geography

Chapter 3: Environment, Land Use and Sustainable Development

Chapter 4: The Spread and Development of Human Population

Chapter 5: Global Cycles and Systems

Chapter 6: Ecosystems and the Bioclimatic Environment

Chapter 7: The Human Population: Trends and Patterns

Chapter 8: Agriculture, Food Production and Hunger

Chapter 9: Energy Generation, Use, and the Environment

Chapter 10: Atmospheric Environment and Land Use

Chapter 11: Air Population: Patterns, Trends and Impacts

Chapter 12: Hydrologic Environment and Land Use

Chapter 13: Water Pollution: Patterns, Trends and Impacts

Chapter 14: Hazardous Waste Production and Disposal

Chapter 15: Soil, Land and Land Use

Chapter 16: Biological Diversity and Land Use

Chapter 17: Open-Land Resources: Forests, Rangelands, Parks and Preserves

Chapter 18: Managing the Global Environment

Appendices

Glossary

Index