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Blatt, Harvey

 
9780262515917: America's Environmental Report Card, second edition: Are We Making the Grade?
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ISBN 10: 0262515911 ISBN 13: 9780262515917
Editorial: MIT Press, 2011

Sinopsis

An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material.

Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls show that many have lost faith in both scientists' and politicians' ability to solve environmental problems. In America's Environmental Report Card, Harvey Blatt sorts through the deluge of conflicting information about the environment and offers an accessible overview of the environmental issues that are most important to Americans today.

Blatt has thoroughly updated this second edition, revising and adding new material. He looks at water supplies and new concerns about water purity; the dangers of floods (increased by widespread logging and abetted by glacial melting); infrastructure problems (in a new chapter devoted entirely to this subject); the leaching of garbage buried in landfills; soil, contaminated crops, and organic food; fossil fuels; alternative energy sources (in another new chapter); controversies over nuclear energy; the increasing pace of climate change; and air pollution. Along the way, he outlines ways to deal with these problems—workable and reasonable solutions that map the course to a sustainable future. America can lead the way to a better environment, Blatt argues. We are the richest nation in the world, and we can afford it—in fact, we can't afford not to.

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Harvey Blatt is the author of America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Editorial
MIT Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0262515911
ISBN 13 
9780262515917
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
382
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