1st Edition
Principles of Environmental Science Connecting Human Impact to Ecological Systems
0. Scientific and Data Literacy.
1. Environmental Science and Sustainability
2. Biodiversity, Evolution, and Extinction
3. Human Population Growth
4. Earth Processes and Human Impacts
5. The Atmosphere and Human Impacts
6. Human Impacts on Biomes
7. The Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Human Impacts
8. The Nitrogen Cycle and Human Impacts
9. The Water Cycle and Human Impacts
10. Energy Transfer and Human Impact
11. Ecological Communities and Human Impacts
12. Energy Solutions for Reducing Carbon Emissions
13. Agricultural Solutions
14. Water Solutions
15. Urban Studies
16. A Sustainable Way Forward
Appendix: Chemical Foundations of the Environment
Biography
Yael Wyner and Rob DeSalle live and work in New York City. Yael Wyner is Associate Professor of Teaching & Learning and of Biology at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York. Rob DeSalle is Curator at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Professor of Comparative Biology in the AMNH Richard Gilder Graduate School. Yael Wyner’s research interest center on how students connect human action and their own daily lives to the living world. She has developed curriculum for student learning of environmental science, ecology, biodiversity and evolution. Her prior work focused on lemur conservation biology. Rob DeSalle’s research interests center on taxonomy, systematics and biodiversity of organisms from microbes to whales.
