environmental science, environmental health, environmental protection, global environment change, global warming, climate change 

Annual Editions 

Environment 10/11 is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interest, well-illustrated articles by environmentalists, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today's important topics in the study of the environment. 

xviii, 201 p. : ill. ; 28 cm 

Preface -- Correlation Guide -- Topic Guide -- Internet References -- Unit 1 The Global Environment: An Emerging World View -- Chapter 1 IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers -- Chapter 2 Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security -- Chapter 3 China Needs Help with Climate Change -- Chapter 4 Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa -- Unit 2 Population, Policy, and Economy -- Chapter 5 Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development? -- Chapter 6 Paying for Climate Change -- Chapter 7 High-Tech Trash: What Your Discarded TV or Computer End up in a Ditch in Ghana? -- Chapter 8 Down with Carbon: Scientists Work to Put the Greenhouse Gas in Its Place -- Unit 3 Energy: Present and Future Problems -- Chapter 9 Gassing up with Hydrogen -- Chapter 10 Wind Power: Obstacles and Opportunities -- Chapter 11 A Solar Grand Plan -- Chapter 12 The Rise of Renewable Energy -- Chapter 13 What Nuclear Renaissance? -- Chapter 14 The Biofuel Future: Scientists Seek Ways to Make Green Energy Pay Off- - Chapter 15 Putting Your Home on an Energy Diet -- Unit 4 Biosphere: Endangered Species -- Chapter 16 Forest Invades Tundra...and the New Tenants Could Aggravate Global Warming -- Chapter 17 America's Coral Reefs: Awash with Problems -- Chapter 18 Seabird Signals -- Chapter 19 Taming the Blue Frontier -- Chapter 20 Nature's Revenge -- Unit 5 Resources: Land and Water -- Chapter 21 Tracking U.S. Groundwater: Reserves for the Future? -- Chapter 22 How Much Is Clean Water Worth? -- Chapter 23 Searching for Sustainability: Forest Policies, Smallholders, and the Trans-Amazon Highway -- Chapter 24 Diet, Energy, and Global Warming -- Chapter 25 Landfill-on-Sea -- Unit 6 The Politics of Climate Change -- Chapter 26 The Truth about Denial -- Chapter 27 Swift Boating, Stealth Budgeting, and Unitary Executives --Chapter 28 The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus -- Chapter 29 How to Stop Climate Change: The Easy Way -- Chapter 30 Environmental Justice for All -- Test-Your-Knowledge Form -- Article Rating Form