TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keller, Edward A.
AU  - Keller, Edward A.
TI  - Introduction to environmental geology
SN  - 9780132251501
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Pearson: 
KW  - Geology
KW  - Environmental Studies
N1  - Appendix; Glossary G1-G18p.; References R1-R12p.; Index I1-I12p
N2  - 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 reader-friendly book helps readers develop an understanding of how geology interacts with major environmental problems facing society. 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. Focuses on five fundamental concepts of environmental geology: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. Features new chapters on Impacts of Extraterrestrial Objects and Waste as a Resource: Waste Management. Presents new or extensively revised discussion of human population growth, Alaska earthquake of 2002, emerging global water shortage, cleaning Boston Harbor
ER  -