Introduction to Environmental Geology
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As the human population increases, many decisions concerning our use of natural resources will determine our standard of living and the quality of our environment. This reader-friendly book helps readers develop an understanding of how geology interacts with major environmental problems facing society. Included with every text, the Hazard City CD-ROM gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments based on the idealized town of Hazard City. Focuses on five fundamental concepts of environmental geology: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. Features new chapters on Impacts of Extraterrestrial Objects and Waste as a Resource: Waste Management. Presents new or extensively revised discussion of human population growth, Alaska earthquake of 2002, emerging global water shortage, cleaning Boston Harbor, and much more. Revises many figures to more clearly illustrate the topics under discussion, based on user feedback. An informative reference for anyone interested in learning more about the environment. Booknews Introduces the basic principles of physical and environmental geology and applies those principles to understanding the major environmental issues facing people and society as a whole. The four parts of the textbook are foundations of environmental geology, earth processes and natural hazards, resources and pollution, and environmental management, global perspective, and society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Please note this Table of Contents is from the third edition of Introduction to Geology:Part I: Foundations of Environmental Geology 1: Philosophy and Fundamental Concepts 2: Internal Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics 3: Minerals and Rocks Part II: Earth Processes and Natural Hazards 4: Introduction to Natural Hazards 5: Earthquakes and Related Phenomena 6: Volcanic Activity 7: Rivers and Flooding 8: Slope Processes, Landslides, and Subsidence 9: Coastal Processes 10: Impact of Extraterrestrial Objects Part III: Resources and Pollution 11: Water Resources 12: Water Pollution 13: Mineral Resources 14: Energy and Resources 15: Soils and Environment 16: Waste as a Resource: Waste Management 17: Air Pollution Part IV: Environmental Management, Global Perspectives, and Society 18: Global Climate Change 19: Geology, Society, and the Future
