Environmental Science

📖 The Scoop

The goal of 'Environmental Science: In Context' is to help high-school and early college-age students understand the essential facts and deeper cultural connections of topics and issues related to the scientific study of the environment and its impacts on humanity. Human biological and cultural origins are, of course, deeply tied to the environment. But just as Earth's environment shaped humanity, human activity (anthropogenic activity) now leaves an unmistakable stamp upon the natural world. The text places special emphasis on exploring the impacts of human habitation and economic activity on the environment.This book reflects the scientific consensus regarding global climate change - that it is real and an urgent global problem - and offers topics devoted to explaining both the science and the social challenges. In an attempt to enrich the reader's understanding of the mutually impacting relationship between science and culture, as space allows we have included primary sources that enhance the content of 'In Context' entries. In keeping with the philosophy that much of the benefit from using primary sources derives from the reader's own process of inquiry, the contextual material introducing each primary source provides an unobtrusive introduction and springboard to critical thought. 'Environmental Science: In Context' is a collection of entries on diverse topics selected to provide insight into increasingly important and urgent topics associated with the study of environmental science. The articles in the book are meant to be understandable by anyone with a curiosity about topics related to the science of climate change and this text has been designed with ready reference in mind.

Genre: Science / Environmental Science (fancy, right?)