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Environmental Success Stories – Solving Major Ecological Problems and Confronting Climate Change

Autor Frank Dunnivant
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2017
Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and a responsive public sector have dealt with them successfully. Frank M. Dunnivant explains how we might confront the world's largest and most complex environmental crisis: climate change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231179195
ISBN-10: 0231179197
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Frank M. Dunnivant is professor of chemistry at Whitman College. He has worked at two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories. For the past twenty years he has taught an environmental science course to nonscience majors that seeks to inform and inspire action to save the environment.

Cuprins

Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Securing Safe, Inexpensive Drinking Water
2. Effective Treatment of Our Wastewaters
3. The Removal of Anthropogenic Lead, and Soon Mercury, from Our Environment
4. Elimination of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons from Our Environment
5. The Safety of Chemicals in Our Food and Water: Risk Assessment
6. Saving Our Atmosphere for Our Children
7. Legislating Industry: The Need and the Success
8. The Rapid Advancement of Technology: Our Best Hope
9. Humans' Greatest Challenge: Climate Change
10. Conclusion and Transition to a Bright Future
Afterword: Imagination, Imagination, Responsibility, and Climate Change, by Kari Marie Norgaard
Bibliography
Index