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The new edition of this classic student text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive view of the major environmental issues facing the world today, and is an essential introduction to the past, present and future impact of humans on Earth. Explores the impact of humans upon veg…
"Following the successful structure of previous editions, the new edition of The Human Impact has been enlarged and updated extensively, with many new figures and up-to-date statistics. Four completely new chapters explore the ways in which global climate change may have an impa…
"Responsibility and Dependable Systems is the first book to examine the relationship between responsibility and system dependability. Systems engineers, computer scientists, social scientists, ergonomists, and management researchers will all benefit from reading the book, and pr…
"Responsibility and Dependable Systems is the first book to examine the relationship between responsibility and system dependability. Systems engineers, computer scientists, social scientists, ergonomists, and management researchers will all benefit from reading the book, and pr…
Discusses the relationships among human begins, the natural environment, and animals. This book rejects the nature/culture dualism of patriarchal thought and locates animals and humans within nature. Among the issues addressed are the conflicts between Green politics and ecofemi…
By presenting ecological theory and application within an evolutionary context, this book transforms ecology from a collection of disassociated facts into an integral, concept-driven discipline. This text develops scientific reasoning skills by teaching students not just what we…
"Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal archaeological sites contain a we…
Endocrine disruptors
by Metzler, Manfred, Dörr, Helmuth G., Bosland, M. C.
fromHandbook of Environmental Chemistry
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About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect between humans and nature. Plants have been used for millennia…
