Ecology.
Human Being.
Society.
/монографії з екології англійською/
Enger, E. D.
Environmental Science. A Study of Interrelationships / E. D. Enger, B. F. Smith. – 6th ed. – Boston, Massachusetts [etc.] : WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1998. – 456 p.
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field. Because environmental disharmonies occur as a result of the interaction between humans and the natural world, we must include both when seeking solutions to environmental problems. The authors have endeavored to present a balanced view of issues, diligently avoiding personal biases and fashionable philosophies.
What we have done is to identify major issues and give appropriate examples that illustrate the complex interactions that are characteristic of all environmental problems. There are many facts present in charts, graphs, and figures that help to illustrate the scope of environmental issues. However, this is not the core of the core of the text, since the facts will change. The core is the central theme: interrelatedness.
Cunningham, W. P.
Environmental Science. A Global Concern / W. P. Cunningham, B. W. Saigo. – 3rd ed. – Dubuque, IA [etc.] : Wm. C. Brown Publ., 1995. – 612 p.
Issues such as human population growth, global climate change, worldwide loss of habitat and biodiversity, soil erosion, forest destruction, air and water pollution, shrinking fossil fuel supplies, and accumulation of toxic wastes have become topics in the daily news. All around us we see evidence that unless we all learn to live more sustainably and with less impact on our environment, the prospects for future generations are bleak indeed.
Our purpose in writing this book is to bring together concepts and data from the natural and social sciences to provide a foundation for both understanding the problems we face and finding ways to progress toward a better future. We hope this book will be an interesting, informative, and inspiring resource toward that end.
Duxbury, A. C.
An Introduction To The World's Oceans / A. C. Duxbury, A. B. Duxbury. – 3rd ed. – Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publ., 1991. – 446 p.
This third edition, like its predecessors, is the result of many experiences. Lectures heard, books read, classes taught, and projects accomplished have all influenced and continue to influence our approach to the study of oceanography. Our goals in this edition remain the same as with previous editions: to write an introductory oceanography text for the student without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology, and to emphasize the role of basic scientific principles over those processes that govern the oceans and the earth.
Therefore, in this edition we emphasize concepts that encourage understanding how, possibly why, and in what directions the earth and its oceans are changing. In this regard we have included some of the new data ideas currently under study, such as ideas concerning the interior of the earth and its early history.
Ethics in Forestry / ed. L. C. Irland. – Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 1994. – 458 p.
"For this book, I divided the field into several categories — professional ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, and the ethics of government service. These general areas, though sometimes overlapping, define primary ethical areas of concern to foresters practicing in government, research, industry, or in a private capacity. I would note that in many instances the author affiliations have not been updated." (L. C. Irland)
Green, L. W.
Community Health / L. W. Green, J. M. Ottoson. – 7th ed. – St. Louis [etc.] : Mosby, 1994. – 719 p. : ill.
Broader than any single profession or discipline, community health represents the intersection of many disciplines and sectors with public health, school health, occupational health, social and recreational services, and self-care. The book offers a synthesis of the perspectives and content of these spheres of health action.
Most chapters offer an inventory of educational, technological, economic, organizational, legal, regulatory, and service measures that can be taken to avert or solve potential health problems. Also indicated are selected objectives appropriate for most communities, based on U.S. national objectives for the year 2000 in disease prevention and health promotion.
Waxman, M. F.
Hazardous waste site operations : a training man. for site professionals / M. F. Waxman. – New York [etc.] : John Wiley & Song, Inc., 1996. – 440 p.
This text was written and designed as a hazardous waste site operations training manual/text to meet the needs of both trainers and trainees.
This text provides a complete training manual for both the instructor to use as a guide and the trainee or student to use as a reference. Use of this text will produce both uniformity and completeness in the materials and the training of site workers.
"Writing this book is my response to the challenge just described. By enabling site workers to perform their jobs safely and by giving trainers a practical tool with which they can instruct and guide, I hope to ensure their health and safety and, indeed, the health and safety of our entire population". (Michael F. Waxman Madison, Wisconsin)
DiSilvestro, R. L.
Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. A New Agenda for Biodiversity / R. L. DiSilvestro. – New York [etc.] : John Wiley & Song, Inc., 1993. – 266 p.
This is a book about boundaries.
It is about the boundaries that we mark upon the land, boundaries that determine whether wild places will be protected from human intrusion or studded with acre upon acre of houses, factories, malls, and office buildings.
It is about the boundaries of our knowledge, the shortfalls in our understanding of wild places and wild creatures that, coupled with our enthusiasm for reshaping the planet, pose a danger to life everywhere on Earth.
It is about the boundaries of human compassion, about our ability to care for living things outside of ourselves and to sympathize with rivers, mountains, deserts, forests, and plains.
At its heart, then, this book is about the shortcomings in the protective boundaries we have drawn upon the land; about the terrible toll that they have taken on our last wild places, from national forests and parks to wilderness areas; and about the need to establish new methods of protection that will meet the challenges of an increasingly human-dominated world.