Description
Substantially up to date for the second one edition, this engaging and leading edge introduction to the surroundings and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.
- Features substantial revisions and updates for the second one edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on environmental solutions
- Discusses topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy and applies them to things like bottled water, tuna, and trees
- Accessible for college students, and accompanied by in-book and online resources including exercises and boxed discussions, a web-based test bank, notes, suggested reading, and website online links for enhanced understanding
- Offers additional online toughen for instructors, including suggested teaching models, PowerPoint slides for each and every chapter with full-color graphics, and supplementary images and teaching material