Global Resources and the Environment, by Chad and Fatma Oliver, will be published by Cambridge University Press in mid-2018. The book describes and integrates the following subjects:
- Dynamic systems, change, and sustainability
- People
- Climates and change
- Landforms
- Biodiversity
- Water
- Agriculture
- Energy
- Minerals
- Forests
This book puts the many aspects of the environment, resources, and people into perspective. It is based on the premise that much in-depth knowledge can be presented simply, thoroughly and succinctly.
It is intended for advancing, mid-career professionals, policymakers, managers, academicians, and anyone else interested in environmental/resource issues. It should avoid the need for busy people to read a separate book on each subject and integrate the information themselves.
The book makes copious use of data sets accrued over the past few decades and displays the information in numerous graphs, regional comparison charts, maps, tables, and photographs. Read the Preface.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Introduction, Dynamic Systems, and Change:
1. Socio-environmental systems
2. A perspective on dynamic systems
3. Change, sustainability, and resilience
Part II. People:
4. Where people live, communicate, and interact
5. People, societies, populations, and changes
6. Resources, governments, and other social influences
Part III. Climates:
7. Global distribution of climates
8. Greenhouse gases, atmosphere, and climates
9. Past and future climate changes
Part IV. Landforms:
10. Landforms and soils
11. Bedrock landforms
12. Landforms of transported materials
Part V. Biodiversity:
13. Biodiversity: individual species
14. Biodiversity: communities and landscapes
15. Robust and threatened species, communities
16. Managing biodiversity
Part VI. Water:
17. The hydrologic cycle
18. The annual hydrograph and water use
19. Managing and mitigating the hydrologic system
Part VII. Agriculture:
20. Food groups and nutrition
21. Agriculture and the green revolution
22. Future agriculture production and distribution
Part VIII. Energy:
23. Energy sources, the energy cycle, exergy
24. Conserving energy and renewable energy
25. Future energy: reducing fossil fuel use
Part IX. Minerals:
26. Rocks and mineral properties, mining
27. Rocks and minerals: production, use, and distribution
Part X. Forests:
28. Forests, ecosystem services, and timber
29. Forest distribution, area, and volume changes
30. Silviculture, forest degradation, and landscape management
Part XI. Perspective:
31. Integrating the environment, resources, and people
Appendix I. Country groups used in analyses
Appendix II. Elements, chemical symbols, atomic numbers, and masses
Index.