Title Principles of sustainability / editor, Lerner Media Group.

Publication Info.	Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
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Description	1 online resource (xii, 447 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Agricultural runoff -- Air pollution policy -- Alternative energy sources -- Antibiotics as environmental waste -- Aquaculture's environmental impact -- Automobile emissions -- Beach erosion -- Bees and other pollinators -- Bhopal disaster -- Biodiversity action plans -- Biomagnification -- Biomass conversion -- Biomes and environmental issues -- Biopesticides and the environment -- Biopiracy and bioprospecting -- Bioremediation -- Biotechnology and genetic engineering -- BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill -- Carbon dioxide -- Carbon dioxide air capture -- Carcinogens in the environment -- Carrying capacity -- Chernobyl nuclear accident -- Chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone -- Clean air act and amendments -- Clean water act and amendments -- Climate accommodation -- Climate change and human health -- Climate change and oceans -- Climate models -- Cogeneration power systems -- Commercial fishing -- Community gardens -- Coniferous forests -- Conservation movement -- Conservation policy -- Controlled burning -- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) -- Coral reefs and coral bleaching -- Dams and reservoirs -- Dead zones -- Destruction of the rain forests -- Detoxification (environmental) -- Detrimental health effects of smog -- Development Gap -- Earth Day -- Earth resources satellites -- Ecological footprint -- Ecotourism: pros and cons -- El Nino and La Nina -- Electronic waste -- Endangered species and species protection policy -- Energy-efficiency labeling -- Environmental causes of cancer clusters -- Environmental effects of coal mining and coal burning -- Environmental impact assessments and statements -- Environmental impacts of desalination -- Environmental impacts of raising cattle -- Environmental refugees -- Erosion and erosion control -- Eutrophication -- Extinctions and species loss -- Floodplains and environmental threats -- Forest management -- Fossil fuels and environmental degradation -- Genetically modified organisms and environmentalism -- Geoengineering -- Glacial melting -- Global biodiversity assessment -- Globalization -- Grazing and grasslands -- Great Barrier Reef and preservation efforts -- Green buildings -- Green marketing -- Greenbelts -- Greenhouse gases and air pollution -- Greenwashing -- Groundwater pollution -- Habitat destruction -- Hazardous and toxic substance regulation -- Hazardous waste -- Health problems caused by exposure to lead -- Hybrid vehicles -- Impact of ocean currents on global climate -- Incineration of waste products -- Indoor air pollution -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- International environmental law -- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) -- Iron Fertilization -- Land clearance -- Land pollution -- Land-use policy -- Light pollution -- Logging and clear-cutting -- Nuclear power industry and the environment -- Ocean dumping -- Ocean pollution -- Oil drilling -- Oil spills -- Organic gardening and farming -- Our common future -- Overconsumption -- Overgrazing of livestock -- Pandemics -- Planned obsolescence -- Plastics -- Poaching -- Pollution permit trading -- Population growth and environmental impact -- Positive feedback and tipping points -- Precautionary principle -- Preservation -- Radon as a health hazard -- Rainwater harvesting -- Renewable energy -- Renewable resources -- Resource depletion -- Resource recovery -- Riparian rights -- Seed banks -- Sewage treatment and disposal -- Slash-and-burn agriculture -- Smart grids and renewable energy -- Soil conservation -- Solid waste management policy -- Spaceship Earth metaphor -- Stormwater management -- Strip and surface mining -- Superfund legislation -- Sustainable agriculture -- Sustainable development -- Sustainable forestry -- Tidal energy -- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- Urban ecology -- Urban planning -- Volcanoes and weather -- Waste management -- Water conservation -- Water pollution -- Water treatment -- Watershed management -- Whaling -- Wilderness areas -- Wildfires -- Wildlife refuges -- Zoning laws -- U.S. federal laws concerning the environment -- Directory of U.S. National Parks -- Major world national parks and protected areas -- Environmental organizations -- Sustainability timeline -- Key figures in sustainability.
Summary	Provides students and researchers with a solid foundation to study of sustainability.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Sustainable development.
	Sustainability.
	Pollution.
	Climatic changes.
	Environmental degradation.
	Renewable energy sources.
	Environmental Pollution.
	Climate Change.
	Renewable Energy.
	sustainable development.
	climate change.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
	Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
	Environmental degradation. (OCoLC)fst00912877
	Pollution. (OCoLC)fst01070069
	Renewable energy sources. (OCoLC)fst01094570
	Sustainability. (OCoLC)fst01747391
	Sustainable development. (OCoLC)fst01139731
Added Author	Lerner Media Group (Firm), editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Principles of sustainability. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2017] 168217607X (OCoLC)980733923
ISBN	9781682176085 (electronic book)
	1682176088 (electronic book)

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