Achieve Read & Practice for Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World (1-Term Online)
Third Edition ©2018 Susan Karr; Anne Houtman; Jeneen Interlandi
Authors
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Susan Karr
Susan Karr, MS, is an Instructor in the Biology Department of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and has been teaching for over 15 years. She has served on campus and community environmental sustainability groups and helps produce an annual “State of the Environment” report on the environmental health of her county. In addition to teaching non-majors courses in environmental science and human biology, she teaches an upper-level course in animal behavior where she and her students train dogs from the local animal shelter in a program that improves the animals’ chances of adoption. She received degrees in Animal Behavior and Forestry from the University of Georgia.
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Anne Houtman
Anne Houtman, PhD, is Professor and Head of the School of Life Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, which includes programs in Environmental and Biological Sciences. Her research interests are in the behavioral ecology of birds, and currently research in her laboratory focuses on the ecology and evolution of hummingbird song. She also has an active research program in science pedagogy. Anne received her doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto.
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Jeneen InterlandI
Jeneen Interlandi is a science writer who contributes to Scientific American and The New York Times Magazine. Previously, she spent four years as a staff writer for Newsweek, where she covered health, science, and the environment. In 2009, she received a Kaiser Foundation fellowship for global health reporting and traveled to Europe and Asia to cover outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Jeneen has worked as a researcher at both Harvard Medical School and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds Masters degrees in Environmental Science and Journalism, both from Columbia University in New York.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Environmental, Science, and Information Literacy
Module 1.1 Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Lessons from a Vanished Society
Module 1.2 Science Literacy and the Process of Science Fungal Attacker Threatens North American Bats
Module 1.3 Information Literacy and Toxicology Lead in the Water
Chapter 2. Ecology
Module 2.1 Ecosystems and Nutrient Cycling Engineering Earth
Module 2.2 Population Ecology Gray Wolves Return to Yellowstone
Module 2.3 Community Ecology The Florida Everglades: A Community in Crisis
Chapter 3. Evolution and Biodiversity
Module 3.1 Evolution and Extinction A Tropical Murder Mystery
Module 3.2 Biodiversity Palm Oil Plantations Threaten Tropical Forests
Module 3.3 Preserving Biodiversity A Forest Without Elephants*
Chapter 4. Human Populations and Environmental Health
Module 4.1 Human Populations The Kerala Model
Module 4.2 Urbanization and Sustainable Communities Creating Green Cities
Module 4.3 Environmental Health Eradicating a Parasitic Nightmare
Chapter 5. Managing Resources: Environmental Economics and Policy
Module 5.1 Ecological Economics and Consumption Wall to Wall, Cradle to Cradle
Module 5.2 Environmental Policy The World Tackles Ozone Depletion
Module 5.3 Managing Solid Waste A Plastic Surf
Chapter 6. Water Resources
Module 6.1 Freshwater Resources Toilet to Tap
Module 6.2 Water Pollution Suffocating the Gulf
Module 6.3 Marine Ecosystems Ocean Acidification: The "Other" CO2 Problem*
Chapter 7. Land Resources
Module 7.1 Forests Returning Trees to Haiti
Module 7.2 Soil Resources and Grasslands Restoring the Range*
Module 7.3 Mineral Resources No Stone Unturned*
Chapter 8. Food Resources
Module 8.1 Feeding the World A Gene Revolution
Module 8.2 Sustainable Agriculture: Raising Crops Farming Like an Ecosystem
Module 8.3 Agriculture: Raising Livestock Can Meat Be Part of a Healthy, Environmentally Conscious Diet?*
Online Module 8.4 Fisheries and Aquaculture Fish in a Warehouse?*
Chapter 9. Conventional Energy: Fossil Fuels
Module 9.1 Coal Bringing Down the Mountain
Module 9.2 Oil and Natural Gas The Bakken Oil Boom
Chapter 10. Air Pollution: Consequences of Using Fossil Fuels
Module 10.1 Air Pollution The Youngest Scientists
Online Module 10.2 Global Climate Change Climate Refugees
Chapter 11. Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
Module 11.1 Nuclear Power The Future of Fukushima
Module 11.2 Sun, Wind, Water, and Earth Energy Fueled by the Sun
Module 11.3 Biofuels Gas from Grass*
*Available online in SaplingPlus
Product Updates
REORGANIZED TABLE of CONTENTS
In the third edition we have broken the main topics down into 11 chapters, each containing two or more modules. These modules (all identified as chapters in the prior edition) focus on specific topics within each chapter.
- For example, Chapter 8, Food Resources, includes four modules, each related to a different aspect of feeding the world. This allows instructors to choose the modules that best meet their teaching goals.
- The most popular modules (topics covered on most syllabi) are found in the print book; additional modules are found online in Sapling Plus, the textbook’s online platform, and in the eBook.
NEW STORIES
Four new stories keep Environmental Science for a Changing World the most current text available for the course.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Environmental, Science, and Information Literacy
- NEW story: Module 1.2 Science Literacy and the Process of Science Fungal Attacker Threatens North American Bats
- NEW story: Module 1.3 Information Literacy and Toxicology Lead in the Water
Chapter 4: Human Populations and Environmental Health
- NEW story: Module 4.1 Human Populations The Kerala Model
Chapter 10: Air Pollution: Consequences of Using Fossil Fuels
- NEW story: Module 10.2 Global Climate Change Climate Refugees
ALL NEW ONLINE MEDIA
This edition has a dedicated version of Macmillan’s online platform, SaplingPlus, home to the interactive eBook and all resources. Pre-built units for each module of the text house ready-to-use assignments and activities for both traditional lecture and active classrooms. Homework questions have hints, targeted feedback, and solutions, to make every problem count.
SaplingPlus can be packaged with the printed text or purchased stand-alone as an affordable all-digital option. In addition to housing all instructor resources, pre-built units in SaplingPlus include:
- Pre-lecture reading quizzes
- Homework with hints, targeted feedback, and solutions
- Interactive maps with assessments
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
- Interactive eBook with additional online modules
- Videos
- Scientific American content activities
THE HUB FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
The hub is home to a collection of in-class activities designed with real instructors in mind. Each activity comes with a detailed guide that introduces the activity, outlines learning objectives, and provides guidance on how to easily implement the activity in your class.
Authors
-
Susan Karr
Susan Karr, MS, is an Instructor in the Biology Department of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and has been teaching for over 15 years. She has served on campus and community environmental sustainability groups and helps produce an annual “State of the Environment” report on the environmental health of her county. In addition to teaching non-majors courses in environmental science and human biology, she teaches an upper-level course in animal behavior where she and her students train dogs from the local animal shelter in a program that improves the animals’ chances of adoption. She received degrees in Animal Behavior and Forestry from the University of Georgia.
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Anne Houtman
Anne Houtman, PhD, is Professor and Head of the School of Life Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, which includes programs in Environmental and Biological Sciences. Her research interests are in the behavioral ecology of birds, and currently research in her laboratory focuses on the ecology and evolution of hummingbird song. She also has an active research program in science pedagogy. Anne received her doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto.
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Jeneen InterlandI
Jeneen Interlandi is a science writer who contributes to Scientific American and The New York Times Magazine. Previously, she spent four years as a staff writer for Newsweek, where she covered health, science, and the environment. In 2009, she received a Kaiser Foundation fellowship for global health reporting and traveled to Europe and Asia to cover outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Jeneen has worked as a researcher at both Harvard Medical School and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds Masters degrees in Environmental Science and Journalism, both from Columbia University in New York.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Environmental, Science, and Information Literacy
Module 1.1 Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Lessons from a Vanished Society
Module 1.2 Science Literacy and the Process of Science Fungal Attacker Threatens North American Bats
Module 1.3 Information Literacy and Toxicology Lead in the Water
Chapter 2. Ecology
Module 2.1 Ecosystems and Nutrient Cycling Engineering Earth
Module 2.2 Population Ecology Gray Wolves Return to Yellowstone
Module 2.3 Community Ecology The Florida Everglades: A Community in Crisis
Chapter 3. Evolution and Biodiversity
Module 3.1 Evolution and Extinction A Tropical Murder Mystery
Module 3.2 Biodiversity Palm Oil Plantations Threaten Tropical Forests
Module 3.3 Preserving Biodiversity A Forest Without Elephants*
Chapter 4. Human Populations and Environmental Health
Module 4.1 Human Populations The Kerala Model
Module 4.2 Urbanization and Sustainable Communities Creating Green Cities
Module 4.3 Environmental Health Eradicating a Parasitic Nightmare
Chapter 5. Managing Resources: Environmental Economics and Policy
Module 5.1 Ecological Economics and Consumption Wall to Wall, Cradle to Cradle
Module 5.2 Environmental Policy The World Tackles Ozone Depletion
Module 5.3 Managing Solid Waste A Plastic Surf
Chapter 6. Water Resources
Module 6.1 Freshwater Resources Toilet to Tap
Module 6.2 Water Pollution Suffocating the Gulf
Module 6.3 Marine Ecosystems Ocean Acidification: The "Other" CO2 Problem*
Chapter 7. Land Resources
Module 7.1 Forests Returning Trees to Haiti
Module 7.2 Soil Resources and Grasslands Restoring the Range*
Module 7.3 Mineral Resources No Stone Unturned*
Chapter 8. Food Resources
Module 8.1 Feeding the World A Gene Revolution
Module 8.2 Sustainable Agriculture: Raising Crops Farming Like an Ecosystem
Module 8.3 Agriculture: Raising Livestock Can Meat Be Part of a Healthy, Environmentally Conscious Diet?*
Online Module 8.4 Fisheries and Aquaculture Fish in a Warehouse?*
Chapter 9. Conventional Energy: Fossil Fuels
Module 9.1 Coal Bringing Down the Mountain
Module 9.2 Oil and Natural Gas The Bakken Oil Boom
Chapter 10. Air Pollution: Consequences of Using Fossil Fuels
Module 10.1 Air Pollution The Youngest Scientists
Online Module 10.2 Global Climate Change Climate Refugees
Chapter 11. Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
Module 11.1 Nuclear Power The Future of Fukushima
Module 11.2 Sun, Wind, Water, and Earth Energy Fueled by the Sun
Module 11.3 Biofuels Gas from Grass*
*Available online in SaplingPlus
Product Updates
REORGANIZED TABLE of CONTENTS
In the third edition we have broken the main topics down into 11 chapters, each containing two or more modules. These modules (all identified as chapters in the prior edition) focus on specific topics within each chapter.
- For example, Chapter 8, Food Resources, includes four modules, each related to a different aspect of feeding the world. This allows instructors to choose the modules that best meet their teaching goals.
- The most popular modules (topics covered on most syllabi) are found in the print book; additional modules are found online in Sapling Plus, the textbook’s online platform, and in the eBook.
NEW STORIES
Four new stories keep Environmental Science for a Changing World the most current text available for the course.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Environmental, Science, and Information Literacy
- NEW story: Module 1.2 Science Literacy and the Process of Science Fungal Attacker Threatens North American Bats
- NEW story: Module 1.3 Information Literacy and Toxicology Lead in the Water
Chapter 4: Human Populations and Environmental Health
- NEW story: Module 4.1 Human Populations The Kerala Model
Chapter 10: Air Pollution: Consequences of Using Fossil Fuels
- NEW story: Module 10.2 Global Climate Change Climate Refugees
ALL NEW ONLINE MEDIA
This edition has a dedicated version of Macmillan’s online platform, SaplingPlus, home to the interactive eBook and all resources. Pre-built units for each module of the text house ready-to-use assignments and activities for both traditional lecture and active classrooms. Homework questions have hints, targeted feedback, and solutions, to make every problem count.
SaplingPlus can be packaged with the printed text or purchased stand-alone as an affordable all-digital option. In addition to housing all instructor resources, pre-built units in SaplingPlus include:
- Pre-lecture reading quizzes
- Homework with hints, targeted feedback, and solutions
- Interactive maps with assessments
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
- Interactive eBook with additional online modules
- Videos
- Scientific American content activities
THE HUB FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
The hub is home to a collection of in-class activities designed with real instructors in mind. Each activity comes with a detailed guide that introduces the activity, outlines learning objectives, and provides guidance on how to easily implement the activity in your class.
Real people. Real stories. Real science.
Following real people and real science, Environmental Science for a Changing World uses an engaging, journalistic approach to show students how science works and how to think critically about environmental issues. Each module uses a single, integrated story to provide context for the science with beautifully designed infographics to clarify essential processes and concepts. This approach has proven so effective that instructors using the book report a dramatic increase in the number of students who read the assignments and come to class ready to participate.
The third edition features new stories, updated scientific coverage, and a new modular organization that makes using the book easier than ever. Each chapter is home to two or more modules that focus on different aspects of a topic, giving instructors flexibility to tailor reading and online assignments to their course. Every module tells a compelling, integrated story, and is built on a pedagogical framework of Guiding Questions to help students identify the scientific concepts that form the basis for the story.
This edition also has a dedicated version of Macmillan’s online course space, SaplingPlus, home to the interactive eBook, all resources, and pre-built units for each module with ready-to-use assignments and activities for both traditional lecture and active classrooms.
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Following real people and real science, Environmental Science for a Changing World uses an engaging, journalistic approach to show students how science works and how to think critically about environmental issues. Each module uses a single, integrated story to provide context for the science with beautifully designed infographics to clarify essential processes and concepts. This approach has proven so effective that instructors using the book report a dramatic increase in the number of students who read the assignments and come to class ready to participate.
The third edition features new stories, updated scientific coverage, and a new modular organization that makes using the book easier than ever. Each chapter is home to two or more modules that focus on different aspects of a topic, giving instructors flexibility to tailor reading and online assignments to their course. Every module tells a compelling, integrated story, and is built on a pedagogical framework of Guiding Questions to help students identify the scientific concepts that form the basis for the story.
This edition also has a dedicated version of Macmillan’s online course space, SaplingPlus, home to the interactive eBook, all resources, and pre-built units for each module with ready-to-use assignments and activities for both traditional lecture and active classrooms.
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