An Introduction To Global Environmental Issues

by Kevin T. Pickering

An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues provides a full description of scientific knowledge of environmental systems and processes. The authors build on this factual base to analyze the world's major environmental concerns. The human dimension - cultural, economic and political factors and impacts - is explained and integrated into this discussion. Contemporary case studies are drawn from every part of the world and state-of-the-art research on specific problems and solutions is explained.

Genres: Science, Environment

389 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 1997