Natural Resources Sustainability

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lant, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Textbooks.

Social sciences.

Geography--Textbooks.

Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Utah Utah Education Network Digital Press with Pressbooks 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This text has evolved from 20 semesters teaching the undergraduate courses Geography, People, and the Environment and Environment and Society. It is designed for freshmen through junior-level courses at community, junior and four-year colleges and universities in the United States. Focused upon the dilemma of environmental sustainability, geography and the emergent field of ecological economics are emphasized in a trans-disciplinary framework. It provides—in a one semester or one quarter undergraduate course that requires no prerequisites—a fundamental background in the essentials students need to deal with natural resource and environmental issues as an informed citizen while building a foundation for further study.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: Natural Resources Sustainability in a Nutshell

Chapter 2: Lessons from Environmental Histroy

Chapter 3: Relevant Fundamentals of Physical Geography and Geology

Chapter 4: Relevant Fundamentals of Ecology

Chapter 5: Human Population and Sustainability

Chapter 6: The Neoclassical Economics Approach to Sustainability

Chapter 7: Learning from Oxymorons I - Ecological Economnics

Chapter 8: Learning from Oxymorons II - Industrial Ecology

Chapter 9: Property, Policy, and Insitutional Economics

Chapter 10: Political Ecology

Chapter 11: Using Land Sustainability

Chapter 12: Water Resource Sustainability

Chapter 13: Wealth from the Earth - Mineral Resources

Chapter 14: Energy Sustainability

Chapter 15: Policies for Natural Resources Sustainability

Chapter 16: Envisioning a Sustainable American Way of Life

Appendix

Notes:

Description based on print resource