The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mark J. Plotkin
The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two ...
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Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Daniel Gardner
When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China’s GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually ...
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Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Judith S. Weis
Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms—chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, ...
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Sustainability
Paul B. Thompson and Patricia E. Norris
This book presents a systems thinking approach to sustainability by answering questions on the meaning of
sustainability in business, ecology, environmental quality, and ...
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