Environmental Science for a Changing World (Canadian Edition) by Marnie Branfireun; Susan Karr; Jeneen Interlandl; Anne Houtman - First Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

Environmental Science for a Changing World (Canadian Edition)

First Edition ©2014 Marnie Branfireun; Susan Karr; Jeneen Interlandl; Anne Houtman

Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, sc...
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Environmental Science for a Changing World (Canadian Edition) by Marnie Branfireun; Susan Karr; Jeneen Interlandl; Anne Houtman - First Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, scientific, and information literacies in a way that engages students.  

Features

Chapters that focus exclusively on pressing Canadian environmental issues:
• Chapter 3 Information Literacy
• Chapter 5 Environmental Economics and Consumption
• Chapter 8 Community Ecology
• Chapter 16 Water Pollution
• Chapter 20 Petroleum
 
Science Taught in the Context of Real-World Stories
• Engaging stories illuminate pressing environmental issues in context. Each story features scientists working in the field and everyday people tackling environmental problems and finding solutions.
• Running Margin Glossary means students encounter important terms in context.
• Real Voices, Characters, and Photos draw students in and bring concepts to life.
 
Skills and Information that Students Can Use Five Years From Now
• A Core Message begins every chapter summarizing key chapter ideas.
• Analyzing the Science questions ask students to use the concepts they learned in the chapter to think like a scientist and answer data based problems to enhance science literacy skills.
• Evaluating New Information questions ask students to evaluate sources of information presented online and in the media to develop their information literacy skills.
• Making Connections problems ask students to apply critical thinking skills to case scenarios to build their environmental literacy skills.
 
Solutions to Environmental Problems to Inspire Students
• Biomimicry is a frequent theme in the chapters-using nature’s models and strategies to solve human problems sustainably.
• Bring It Home feature considers ways students can address environmental issues on the individual, group, and political level.
 
Infographics that Provide Practice Interpreting Visual Displays of Data
• Infographics provide practice interpreting a wide range of charts, graphs and tables.  They make science concepts approachable by combining
easy-to-follow images with straightforward explanations. Each graphic gives a complete picture of a fundamental scientific principle or environmental concept.
• Maps appear in every chapter to anchor the story to a geographical
location and present new data helping students develop skills in geography and map reading.
 

 

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Table of Contents

Unit 1 Foundations and Tools of the Trade
1. Environmental Literacy
On the Road to Collapse
2. Science Literacy and the Process of Science
Science and the Sky
3. Information Literacy
Toxic Bottles
4. Human Populations
One-Child China Grows Up
5. Ecological Economics and Consumption
Wall to Wall, Cradle to Cradle


Unit 2 Ecology, Patterns, and Processes
6. Ecosystems and Nutrient Cycling
Engineering Earth
7. Population Ecology
The Wolf Watchers
8. Community Ecology
Bringing a forest back from the brink
9. Biodiversity
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
10. Evolution and Extinction
A Tropical Murder Mystery
 
Unit 3 Earth’s Resources, Current Challenges, and Sustainable Options
11. Forests
Returning Trees to Haiti
12. Grasslands
Restoring the Range
13. Marine Ecosystems
Science Under the Sea
14. Fisheries and Aquaculture
Fish in a Warehouse?
15. Water
Toilet to Tap
16. Water Pollution
Resuing the Great Lakes
17. Solid Waste
A Plastic Surf
18. Agriculture
Fine-Feathered Farming
 
Unit 4 Energy: A Wicked Problem with any Consequences
19. Coal
Bringing Down the Mountain
20. Oil and Natural Gas
Sands of Time
21. Air Pollution
The Youngest Scientist
22. Climate Change
When the Trees Leave
23. Nuclear Power
The Future of Fukushima
24. Sun, Wind, and Water Energy
Fueled By the Sun
25. Biofuels
Gas from Grass
 
Unit 5 Toward a Sustainable Future
26. Urbanization and Sustainable Communities
The Ghetto Goes Green

Marnie Branfireun

Marnie Branfireun is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. She teaches in both the Undergraduate Environmental Science and MSc in Ecological Restoration Programs. Her BSc (University of Manitoba) in Ecology focused on aquatic ecology, and her MSc (McGill University) was on mercury cycling and plant decomposition in boreal peatlands. She has monitored stream and lake ecosystems using benthic macroinvertebrates for Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, conducted research at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario, worked as a Project Ecologist for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and has taught post-secondary environmental science at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. As an ecologist and physical geographer, she has been engaged in environmental science education, conservation, restoration, and monitoring for over 25 years.　

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.

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.

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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