Raven, Hassenzahl, and Berg's Environment threads the central themes of Systems and Sustainability throughout the text to help students understand the connection between the core concepts of Environmental Science and their daily lives. The 8th edition features a rich collection of current case studies and in-text examples, highlighting these local and regional issues, and providing students with the science and tools to understand, apply, and think critically about environmental science. In addition to the text, the integrated learning design of WileyPLUS incorporates a wealth of animations, videos, podcasts, and interactive exercises, and gives instructors a powerful tool to assess individual students and the class as a whole.
I use this textbook for my intro to environmental studies class - it does an excellent job providing a blend of basic science, environmental law, and public policy. It's too expensive, but what are you gonna do...
This is a textbook. It's a great non-partisan contemporary review of the state of physical ecology, and the effects man's modern lifestyle has had on the earth.
The worst part about this textbook (other than the utterly depressing content but that's okay) is the formatting and how all the headers look the same, which makes it really hard to take notes on. Of course, I think that's just a personal problem. What sucks the most about the class I had to get this book for was I read the whole textbook and the prof doesn't even make us use it. Ugh.