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Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World
Fourth Edition| ©2021 Susan Karr
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 environment...
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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.
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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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Susan Karr
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Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World
Fourth Edition| 2021
Susan Karr
Table of Contents
BRIEF CONTENTSCHAPTER 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

Scientific American Environmental Science for a Changing World
Fourth Edition| 2021
Susan Karr
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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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