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CHAPTER 1: An Introduction to Environmental Science
Chapter Objectives
This chapter will help students:
Define the term environment
Describe natural resources and explain their importance to human life
Characterize the interdisciplinary nature of environmental science
Understand the scientific method and how science operates
Diagnose and illustrate some of the pressures on the global environment
Evaluate the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development
CHAPTER 2: Environmental Ethics and Economics: Values and
Choices
Chapter Objectives
This chapter will help students:
Characterize the influences of culture and worldview on the choices people make
Outline the nature, evolution, and expansion of environmental ethics in Western
cultures
Describe precepts of classical and neoclassical economic theory, and summarize
their implications for the environment
Compare the concepts of economic growth, economic health, and sustainability
Explain the fundamentals of environmental economics and ecological economics
CHAPTER 5: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Population Ecology
Chapter Objectives
This chapter will help students:
Outline the characteristics of populations that help predict population growth
Assess logistic growth, carrying capacity, limiting factors, and other fundamental
concepts in population ecology
Identify efforts and challenges involved in the conservation of biodiversity
7: Environmental Systems and Ecosystem Ecology
Chapter Objectives
This chapter will help students:
Describe the nature of environmental systems
Define ecosystems and evaluate how living and nonliving entities interact in
ecosystem-level ecology
Compare and contrast how carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and water cycle through
the environment