Introduction to Environment and Sustainable Development - (Second Edition)

Author: Ma Guang / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive quality education textbook for environmental awareness education, focusing on cultivating high-quality talents with environmental protection and sustainable development awareness. It aims to plant "green seeds" across the motherland in various fields, becoming the backbone and core force for China's environmental protection and sustainable development strategy. The main text is divided into ten chapters: Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Earth's Natural Ecological Environment; Chapter 3 Basic Principles of Ecology; Chapter 4 Resources, Energy, and Population; Chapter 5 Global Atmospheric Environmental Changes; Chapter 6 Marine and Freshwater Environments; Chapter 7 Water Environment Ecological Restoration; Chapter 8 Forest Resources and Desertification; Chapter 9 Urban Ecological Environment; Chapter 10 Practices of Sustainable Development. The appendix lists international environmental organizations, international conventions, and a chronicle of global environmental events. This book is suitable for elective use by students in various disciplines at colleges, universities, and graduate schools, as well as for reference by government leaders at all levels and professionals in teaching, science and technology, production management, and other fields who are concerned about environmental protection.