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Introduction to Environmental Geology, 4/E
Edward A. Keller

ISBN-10: 0132251507
ISBN-13:  9780132251501

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2008
Format:  Paper; 752 pp
Published:  04/16/2007


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For courses in Environmental Geology taken by introductory, non-science majors. Also appropriate for Physical Geology courses emphasizing an environmental perspective.

 

As the human population increases, many decisions concerning our use of natural resources will determine our standard of living and the quality of our environment. This text helps non-science majors develop an understanding of how geology and humanity interface. Ed Keller—the author who first defined the environmental geology course—focuses on five fundamental concepts of environmental geology: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. These concepts are introduced at the outset of the text, integrated throughout, and revisited at the end of each chapter.

 

Included with every text, the Hazard City CD-ROM gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments based on the idealized town of Hazard City.


Features

  • Five Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Geology—Chapter 1 introduces five concepts that unify the diverse topics the student will be studying: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. To make these connections even more clear, at the end of each chapter, the chapter's topic is summarized in terms of these concepts (see "Revisiting Fundamental Concepts"). 
  • Student-focused chapter structure—Includes consistent learning aids to maximize students' understanding of the material and review of major topics:

    • Learning objectives

    • Chapter summary

    • Detailed references at the end of each chapter

    • Key terms at the end of each chapter

    • Review questions

    • Critical-thinking questions that stimulate students to think about some of the important issues in the text and relate these to their lives and society.

  • Foundations of geology—The text balances environmental considerations with a solid presentation of fundamental concepts and processes of physical geology.
  • Case History and A Closer Look selected features—Added where appropriate to help students relate topics in the text to their world.
  • Comprehensive appendices—Help students grasp some of the more applied aspects of environmental geology; useful for supplementing laboratory exercises and field exercises. Appendices include:

    • Identification of rocks and minerals with accompanying tables and suggestions.

    • Strength of rocks.

    • Introduction to topographic and geologic maps with specific information concerning how to read topographic maps, construct topographic profiles, and understand geologic maps.

    • Introduction to Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Global Positioning System instrumentation (GPS).

    • Discussion of how geologists determine and interpret geologic time.

    • A glossary of terms used in the field of environmental geology.


New To This Edition

New:  Chapter on Ecology & Geology (Chapter 4)

  • Recognizes important linkages between physical and biological
    processes in study of the environment.

 
New:  Extensively revised discussions include:

  • Why solving environmental problems is difficult (Chapter 1)
  • Environmental Policy and the Precautionary Principle (Chapter 1)
  •  Tsunamis (Chapter 6)
  • Evaluation of Flooding (Chapter 8)
  •  La Conchita Landslide (Chapter 9)
  • Hurricanes (Chapter 10)
  • Water Resources (Chapter 13)
  • Peak Oil (Chapter 15)
  • E-waste (Chapter 17)
  •  Air Toxics (Chapter 18)
  • Global Warming (Chapter 19)
  • What a sustainable environment involves–a vision for the future (Chapter 20)

 

New: Revised and updated figures to more clearly illustrate the topics under
discussion.


Table of Contents

Please note this Table of Contents is from the third edition of Introduction to Geology:

 

Part I: Foundations of Environmental Geology

 1: Philosophy and Fundamental Concepts

 

 2: Internal Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics

 

 3: Minerals and Rocks

 

Part II: Earth Processes and Natural Hazards

 4: Introduction to Natural Hazards

 

 5: Earthquakes and Related Phenomena

 

 6: Volcanic Activity

 

 7: Rivers and Flooding

 

 8: Slope Processes, Landslides, and Subsidence 
 
 9: Coastal Processes 
 
10: Impact of Extraterrestrial Objects 
 

Part III: Resources and Pollution

11: Water Resources 
 
12: Water Pollution 
 
13: Mineral Resources 
 
14: Energy and Resources 
 
15: Soils and Environment 
 
16: Waste as a Resource: Waste Management 
 
17: Air Pollution 
 

Part IV: Environmental Management, Global Perspectives, and Society

18: Global Climate Change

 

19: Geology, Society, and the Future


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