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First published

[San Diego] : Cognella Academic Publishing, 2016

237 stran ; 26 cm

ISBN 978-1-63189-060-4 (brožováno)

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Global Environmental Problems: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions provides an overview of the main environmental problems facing today’s world. While many books on the environment place a heavy emphasis on political actors, processes, and institutions, Global Environmental Problems highlights not only environmental actors, but the causes of and potential solutions to environmental crises. Each chapter of the text uses a specific case study to address a specific issue. These include wildlife depletion, tropical deforestation, marine fisheries depletion, climate change, water pollution and shortages, and toxic waste. Students will also learn about less familiar, but critical issues such as dry land deforestation, the environmental impacts of agriculture, desertification, and population and urbanization. Global Environmental Problems is well suited to courses on environmental policy. The book uses an accessible, interdisciplinary approach, which also makes it appropriate for courses on environmental history, conservation, and international relations. In addition, Global Environmental Problems will be of interest to the general reader who cares about the environment and the problems facing it..

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CHAPTER ONE / Tropical Deforestation BY TOBIAS LANZ // CASE STUDY 1.1 / Forest Peoples-the African Pygmies // CASE STUDY 1.2 / The Drug Trade and Tropical Deforestation CASE STUDY 1.3 / NGOs and Tropical Rainforest Conservation CHAPTER TWO / Wildlife Depletion BY TOBIAS LANZ // CASE STUDY 2.1 / The Extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger // CASE STUDY 2.2 / The African Elephant Poaching Crisis // CASE STUDY 2.3 / Plight of the Indian Tiger // CHAPTER THREE / Desertification/Dryland Deforestation BY MAN ALI BARUAH // 49 // CHAPTER FOUR / Marine Fisheries Depletion 73 BY WILF SWARTZ AND LAURENNE SCHILLER CHAPTER FIVE / Climate Change 95 BY THOMAS B. FOWLER CHAPTER SIX / Toxic Waste 123 BY TOBIAS LANZ CASE STUDY 6.1 / Love Canal 140 // CASE STUDY 6.2 / The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 142 // CHAPTER SEVEN / Air Pollution/Acid Rain 147 BY PALASH SANYAL CASE STUDY 7.1 / Acid Rain and World’s Most Populated Country 162 // CASE STUDY 7.2 / Ozone Hole Over Antarctica 166 // CHAPTER EIGHT / Agriculture and the Environment BY TOBIAS LANZ CASE STUDY 8.1 / The WTO, Poverty and Environmental Degradation // CASE STUDY 8.2 / The GM Agriculture Debate // CHAPTER NINE / Population and Urbanization BY TOBIAS LANZ // CASE STUDY 9.1 / Population Trends and Policy in China // CHAPTER TEN / Sustainable Development BY EDWARD R. CARR AND MICHAEL H. FINEWOOD