Environment and Development

Author: Wang Huanxiao
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Publishing Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Environment and development is a comprehensive issue with a broad scope and is extremely complex, allowing for research and discussion from different disciplines and perspectives. This book is based on ecological theory, aiming to maintain ecological balance and achieve the unification of economic, social, and environmental benefits. It begins with major global environmental issues and uses ecological and ecological economic theories to explain the causes, consequences, and solutions to environmental problems, seeking to achieve unity and coordination between the environment and development. The book consists of 11 chapters, divided into three parts: Part 1 introduces fundamental knowledge, including 2 chapters on environment and environmental protection and ecology, which are the foundation of environmental science and also the foundation of environment and development; Part 2 covers specific environmental issues, with 8 chapters on population, forests, resources, environmental pollution and human health, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, the ozone layer depletion, and biodiversity, which are the main themes of the book; Part 3 primarily explores the causes of environmental pollution and destruction, summarizes the past, learns from experience, and looks to the future. This book can serve as a teaching text for undergraduate students in environmental science, as well as a reference for college undergraduate and graduate students and as a resource for education about China's national conditions.