Synopses & Reviews
A major and complete revision of this widely used text for undergraduate environmental conservation courses, concerned with the human environment and its resources, and with the need for achieving an ecologically sustainable economy while maintaining biotic and cultural diversity. The approach encompasses world resources and environments but focuses on the United States and its relationship to the global environment and economy.`I have used several editions in my teaching (Geography 350: Conservation and Ecology in America). His volume is still the best.'
Table of Contents
Conservation: The Survival Option.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
The Oldest Ways.
The Newer Ways.
WHERE ARE WE?
The Nature of the Environment.
ThehBiotic Regions.
Increase and Multiply: The Population Story.
Energy: The Devil's Bargain.
Finding Food.
Most of the Planet: Water.
The Wilder Lands: Forest and Range.
The Wildest Lands.
WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO?
How to Make the Earth Uninhabitable.
Ecodevelopment: A Different Way to Go.
Appendix.
Bibliography.
Index.