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Intended for environmental science, environmental biology and human ecology courses, this book is a comprehensive revision with an update of each chapter. It uses basic scientific concepts to show how global, national, and local environmental facts, problems, and possible solutions are related and discusses and evaluates opposing sides of major environmental issues and treatments. The text emphasizes energy as an integrating concept, presenting a sustainable-Earth world view and a realistically hopeful attitude. 10,000 references and 200 specialist reviewers document and support the text.
This concise, inexpensive text covers all major topics found in Miller's longer texts (Living in the Environment and Environmental Science) but in less detail. It provides an integrated approach emphasizing solutions and distilling the key concepts in environmental science to offer students the basic material for half the price of other environmental science texts. Miller treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from the natural sciences (including biology, chemistry, and geology), and the social sciences (economics and politics), along with ethical perspectives to give students a truly multidimensional picture of how environmental systems are interconnected. Miller's environmental science texts have been used by millions of students throughout the country and outsell all other environmental science texts.