Environmental Protection – First Steps to Environmental Sustainability Explained!

Description: The cover photo showing illuminated areas of the Earth at night as seen from space satellites illustrates global energy use patterns. The global extent of increasing energy use is cause to examine the ramifications of resource consumption and its effects on the world in which we live. This text examines several critical topics of global importance associated with our increasing use of resource consumption and its impact on our environment.

Energy and the Environment, 2e provides updated information on pivotal issues that surround the study of energy through the exploration of basic concepts, resources applications, and problems of current interest. The text presents up-to-date research and data from the pages of current journals and government publications.

• Author: Robert A. Ristinen
• Author: Jack P. Kraushaar
• Binding: Paperback
• EAN: 9780471739890
• Edition: 2
• ISBN: 0471739898
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• Label: Wiley
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• Manufacturer: Wiley
• NumberOfItems: 1
• NumberOfPages: 384
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• PublicationDate: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: Wiley
• SKU: 3_0471739898
• Studio: Wiley
• Title: Energy and the Environment

Description: What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature’s future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with examples. The book will be valuable for students taking courses in environmental philosophy, and also for a wider audience in courses in ethics, practical ethics, and environmental studies. It will also appeal to general readers who want a reliable and sophisticated introduction to the field.

• Author: Dale Jamieson
• Binding: Kindle Edition
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Label: Cambridge University Press
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• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
• NumberOfItems: 1
• NumberOfPages: 234
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• PublicationDate: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• ReleaseDate: 2008-01-28
• Studio: Cambridge University Press
• Title: Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)

Description: In this current, thought-provoking environmental science textbook, G. Tyler Miller and new coauthor Scott Spoolman bring the concept of sustainability to the forefront. Students are engaged and motivated with vivid case studies and hands-on quantitative exercises. As the authors showcase four scientific principles of sustainability, they immerse students in the many practical steps they, as individuals, can take toward more sustainable lifestyles. The book’s new concept-centered format transforms complex environmental topics and issues into key concepts that students will understand and remember.

• Author: G. Tyler Miller
• Author: Scott Spoolman
• Binding: Hardcover
• EAN: 9780495556718
• Edition: 16
• ISBN: 0495556718
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• Label: Brooks Cole
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• Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
• NumberOfItems: 1
• NumberOfPages: 832
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• PublicationDate: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• SKU: 1002872059
• Studio: Brooks Cole
• Title: Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions