In this popular book, Daniel D.Chiras, respected environmental educator and author, helps you sort through the environmental issues, facts, figures, and viewepoints, He focuses on root causes and on the preventive, sustainable solutions that make sense ecologically and economically.

Accurate and impartial, Chiras includes differing perspectivesd and manhy opportunities to help you think critically about the issues and their proposed solutions so you are prepared to come to your own conclusions. The book's numer ous conceptual models encourage you to think about ways human systems affect the planet's life support systems and how to organize facts into solid conceptual framework.

Part 1 Introduction to Environmental Protection: Sustainability, Science, and Systems
Part 2 Natural Systems/Human Systems: Searching for a Sustainable Relationship
Part 3 The Population Challenge: Solving the Woeld's Most Pressing Problem Sustainbly
Part 4 Resource Issues: Solutions for a Sustainable Society
Part 5 Learning ot Live Within the Earth's Carrying Capacity
Part 6 Ethics, Enconomics, and Environment