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Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World

Fourth Edition ©2021 Susan Karr

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Real people. Real stories. Real science.

Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning tool, Achieve, Susan Karr’s Environmental Science for a Changing World 4e uses an engaging, journalistic approach—real stories about real people—to show students how science works and how to think critically about environmental issues. Each module reads like a single, integrated Scientific American-style article with clear explanations of essential processes and concepts enhanced with beautifully designed infographics.

Features

  • Captivating stories in each of the 31 modules, organized into chapters, follows an engaging, real story that illustrates and motivates core science concepts. Magazine-like photos and layout bring the story to life.
  • Infographics provide the scientific background students need to understand the environmental science concepts. Clear and concise captions and callouts help students interpret data. Critical Thinking Questions accompany each infographic, encouraging students to explore concepts more deeply, while fostering scientific literacy.
  • Effective pedagogy promotes student learning throughout the text. Each module begins with a series of Guiding Questions that focus students on the chapter’s central scientific content. Key Concepts appear in each section and correspond to the Guiding Questions, re-emphasizing the chapter’s essential scientific ideas. Infographics and section headings are tagged with icons that relate them to the Guiding Questions.
  • New Revisit the Concepts end-of-module section features a bulleted list of key concepts for review.
  • Revised Environmental Literacy: Understanding the Issue end-of-module section, eliminates multiple choice questions in favor of open-ended questions. Answers are available online as an instructor resource.
  • Bring it Home boxes in every module provides students with ways they can make a difference: individually, as a group, and by influencing policy.
  • Global Case Studies highlight related stories around the world, because events are more compelling when they happen in your own backyard.

    • New to This Edition

    New to this Edition Overview

    • 7 new stories, updates to all returning stories
    • Expanded material on important topics such as the Planetary Boundary Concept, media literacy, geological hazards, food deserts, and soil ecosystems
    • New pedagogical features such as “Revisit the Concepts” summaries and open-ended Environmental Literacy questions
    • Updated statistics and data, as well as general updates to environmental issues and policies


    New Stories on the

    • Module 5.3 - Managing Solid Waste: New lead story “Microplastics”presence of microplastics in the Great Lakes
    • Module 6.1 - Freshwater Resources: New lead story “Water Wars” on water wars in the Colorado River Basin; moved discussion of the Flint, Michigan water crisis to this module (formerly in Module 1.3 of the 3e)
    • Module 7.1 - Mineral Resources: New lead story “Balancing Green Technology with Environmental Costs” on the Chilean lithium mining industry and its environmental and societal impacts
    • Module 8.1 - Banking on Seeds: New lead story on the Millennium Seed Bank in England as protection against plant extinctions
    • Module 8.2 - Farming like an Ecosystem: New lead story on an integrated rice and duck farm in Vermont
      Online Module 8.3 - Sustainable Agriculture/Raising Livestock: New lead story on regenerative farming to raise livestock at a family farm in Tennessee
    • Module 11.2 - Sustainable Energy/Stationary Sources: New lead story on Chicago’s efforts toward a 100% clean energy future

    New Topics

    • Addition of the new international benchmark of the Planetary Boundary Concept and its framework into Module 1.1’s Introduction to Environmental ScienceAddition of “media literacy” to the information literacy discussion (now in Module 1.2)
    • Addition of geological hazards into Module 7.1, as well as fundamentals of geology
    • Addition of “food deserts” to Module 8.1
    • Expanded the coverage of soil to include the microbiota of soil ecosystems and soil health in Module 8.2 (with additional mention in Online Modules 7.3 and 8.3)

    New Pedagogical Elements

    • New Revisit the Concepts end-of-module section features a bulleted list of key concepts for review.
    • Revised Environmental Literacy: Understanding the Issue end-of-module section, eliminates multiple choice questions in favor of open-ended questions. Answers are available online as an instructor resource.
    • Visual alignment of beginning-of-module Guiding Questions with sectional Key Concepts and end-of-module
    • Revisit the Concepts summaries and Environmental Literacy content assessments to tie the different study aides together.

    Changes to Table of Contents

    • Combined topics of the Process of Science (3e’s 1.2), Information Literacy and Media Literacy (3e’s 1.3) into the new Module 1.2 (resulting in deletion of previous Module 1.3)
    • Combined topics of Environmental Health (3e’s 4.3) and Toxicology (3e’s 1.3) into the new Module 4.3 (resulting in deletion of 3e’s Module 1.3)
    • Combined the topic of Mineral Resources with the fundamentals of geology by folding 3e’s Appendix 4 (Geology) into Module 7.1 (resulting in deletion of Appendix 4)
    • Moved discussion of industrial agriculture to Module 8.1 (from Modules 8.1 and 8.2)

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    Table of Contents

    BRIEF 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  THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE
    FUNGAL ATTACKER THREATENS BATS
     
    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
    ONLINE MODULE 3.3 PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY
    A FOREST WITHOUT ELEPHANTS
     
    CHAPTER 4 Human Populations and Environmental Health
    MODULE 4.1 HUMAN POPULATION
    THE KERALA MODEL
    MODULE 4.2 URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
    CREATING GREEN CITIES
    MODULE 4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND TOXICOLOGY
    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
    MICROPLASTICS
     
    CHAPTER 6 Water Resources
    MODULE 6.1 FRESHWATER RESOURCES
    WATER WARS
    MODULE 6.2 WATER POLLUTION
    SUFFOCATING THE GULF
    ONLINE MODULE 6.3 MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
    OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: THE “OTHER” CO2 PROBLEM
     
    CHAPTER 7 Geological and Land Resources
    MODULE 7.1 MINERAL RESOURCES
    BALANCING GREEN TECHNOLOGY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS
    MODULE 7.2 FOREST RESOURCES
    RETURNING TREES TO HAITI
    ONLINE MODULE 7.3 GRASSLANDS
    RESTORING THE RANGE
     
    CHAPTER 8 Food Resources
    MODULE 8.1 FEEDING THE WORLD
    BANKING ON SEEDS
    MODULE 8.2 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: RAISING CROPS
    FARMING LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM
    ONLINE MODULE 8.3 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: RAISING LIVESTOCK
    CAN A SUSTAINABLE DIET INCLUDE MEAT?
    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 Quality and Climate Change
    MODULE 10.1 AIR POLLUTION
    THE YOUNGEST SCIENTISTS
    MODULE 10.2 CLIMATE CHANGE
    CLIMATE REFUGEES
     
    CHAPTER 11 Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
    MODULE 11.1 NUCLEAR POWER
    THE FUTURE OF FUKUSHIMA
    MODULE 11.2 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: STATIONARY SOURCES
    MOVING TOWARD A RENEWABLE ENERGY FUTURE
    ONLINE MODULE 11.3 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: MOBILE SOURCES

    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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