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Sustainability A Comprehensive Foundation

With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the hum...

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Other Authors: Theis, Tom (Editor), Tomkin, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] OpenStax CNX [2015]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Science > Textbooks
Social sciences > Textbooks
Engineering and Technology > Textbooks
Political Science > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Foreword
  • 2 Preface
  • 3 Introduction to Sustainability: Humanity and the Environment
  • 4 The Evolution of Environmental Policy in the United States
  • 5 Climate and Global Change
  • 6 Biosphere
  • 7 Physical Resources: Water, Pollution, and Minerals
  • 8 Environmental and Resource Economics
  • 9 Modern Environmental Management
  • 10 Sustainable Energy Systems
  • 11 Problem-Solving, Metrics, and Tools for Sustainability
  • 12 Sustainability: Ethics, Culture, and History
  • 13 Sustainable Infrastructure

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