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Environment
- Book Cover (Page 1) - Title (Page 4) - Contents (Page 5) - List of Figures (Page 8) - List of Tables (Page 12) - Preface to the Second Edition (Page 14) - Introduction (Page 18) - Environmental interactions, cycles, and systems (Page 21) - Ecology and environmentalism (Page 24) - History of environmental science (Page 27) - Changing attitudes to the natural world (Page 30) - Further reading (Page 34) - Earth Sciences (Page 36) - The formation of rocks, minerals, and geologic structures (Page 40) - Weathering (Page 44) - The evolution of landforms (Page 47) - Coasts, estuaries, sea levels (Page 51) - Energy from the Sun (Page 54) - Albedo and heat capacity (Page 59) - The greenhouse effect (Page 61) - The evolution, composition, and structure of the atmosphere (Page 68) - General circulation of the atmosphere (Page 71) - Oceans, gyres, currents (Page 76) - Weather and climate (Page 81) - Glacials, interglacials, and interstadials (Page 85) - Dating methods (Page 90) - Climate change (Page 93) - Climatic regions and floristic regions (Page 98) - Further reading (Page 103) - Notes (Page 104) - Physical Resources (Page 107) - Eutrophication and the life cycle of lakes (Page 112) - Salt water, brackish water, and desalination (Page 116) - Irrigation, waterlogging, and salinization (Page 120) - Soil formation, ageing, and taxonomy (Page 124) - Transport by water and wind (Page 128) - Soil, climate, and land use (Page 132) - Soil erosion and its control (Page 136) - Mining and processing of fuels (Page 140) - Mining and processing of minerals (Page 147) - Further reading (Page 152) - Biosphere (Page -1) - Major biomes (Page -1) - Nutrient cycles (Page -1) - Respiration and photosynthesis (Page -1) - Energy, numbers, biomass (Page -1) - Ecosystems (Page -1) - Succession and climax (Page -1) - Arrested successions (Page -1) - Colonization (Page -1) - Stability, instability, and reproductive strategies (Page -1) - Simplicity and diversity (Page -1) - Homoeostasis, feedback, regulation (Page -1) - Limits of tolerance (Page -1) - Further reading (Page -1) - Biological Resources (Page -1) - Evolutionary strategies and game theory (Page -1) - Adaptation (Page -1) - Dispersal mechanisms (Page -1) - Wildlife species and habitats (Page -1) - Biodiversity (Page -1) - Fisheries (Page -1) - Forests (Page -1) - Farming for food and fibre (Page -1) - Human populations and demographic change (Page -1) - Genetic engineering (Page -1) - Further reading (Page -1) - References (Page -1) - Environmental Management (Page -1) - Zoos, nature reserves, wilderness (Page -1) - Pest control (Page -1) - Restoration ecology (Page -1)