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Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future (9th Edition)
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Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future (9th Edition)
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by Daniel D. Chiras, John P. Reganold, and Oliver S. Owen
Sales Rank: 200948
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List Price: $125.05
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Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition October 3, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131458329
ISBN-13: 978-0131458321
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Product Description
Written from a sustainable perspective, this readable, yet rigorous, book provides comprehensive coverage of a variety of local, regional, national, and global resource and environmental issues from population growth to wetlands to agriculture to global air pollution. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives. Overall increased emphasis on international and global issues (includes many examples from Canada). New information on Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing—integrated GIS Remote Sensing boxed information appears throughout, including 12 case studies. Expanded coverage of ecosystem management and watershed management, global climate change, ozone depletion, wetlands protection, and policy—including new international treaties, new federal laws, and more. The friendly, approachable writing style makes the book accessible to a wide range of readers—from those who want an introduction in natural resource conservation and natural resource management to professionals in this field.
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Publisher Description
This leading text examines the past, present and future of resource conservation by explaining the basic ecological principles on which modern resource management is based. It fully considers each major resource in terms of its value to humans, its exploitation or degradation, and how it can be restored and sustainably managed.
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