CHAPTER ONE: ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN SYSTEMS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Environments and Ecosystems
Sociocultural Systems
Ecosystem and Sociocultural Evolution: Human Ecology
Environmental Social Sciences
Conclusion: Environment, Ecosystems, and Human Systems
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CHAPTER TWO: HUMANS AND THE RESOURCES OF THE EARTH: SOURCES AND SINKS
Land and Soil
Water Resources
Biodiversity and Forests
Wastes and Pollution
Conclusion: Resources of the Earth
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CHAPTER THREE: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Ozone Depletion and Ultraviolet Radiation
Turning Up the Heat: Global Warming
Do we know enough to act?
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CHAPTER FOUR :ENERGY AND SOCIETY
A Historical Detour: Recent Energy Crises
Energy Problems: Environmental and Social
The Energetics of Human Societies
The Present Energy System and its Alternatives
In Summary: Energy and the Risks We Take
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CHAPTER FIVE: POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, AND FOOD 224
The Dynamics of Population Change
How serious is the problem of population growth?
Making Sense out of this Controversy
Population, Food, and Hunger
Feeding eight billion people in the next 50 years?
Stabilizing World Population: Policy Options
Conclusion
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CHAPTER SIX: GLOBALIZATION, GROWTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY 288
Globalization
Sustainability
Growth and Sustainability: Two Perspectives
Sustainable Societies?
Transformations and Sustainability: Social Change
Conclusion: A Transformation to Sustainability?
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CHAPTER SEVEN: TRANSFORMING STRUCTURES: MARKETS AND POLITICS
Markets
Politics and Policy
Possible Levers for Progress
The Global Political-Economy and the Environment
Conclusion
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CHAPTER EIGHT: ENVIRONMENTALISM: IDEIOLOGY AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS
American Environmentalism
Global Environmentalism
Environmentalism and Change
Environmentalism: How Successful?
In conclusion
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