Living in the environment / G. Tyler Miller and Scott E. Spoolman.

Includes index.

Unit 1: Humans and sustainability an overview -- The environment and sustainability -- Unit 2: Science, ecological principles, and sustainability -- Science, matter, energy, and systems -- Ecosystems: What are they and how do they work? -- Biodiversity and evolution -- Species interactions, ecological succession, and population control -- The human population -- Climate and terrestrial biodiversity -- Aquatic biodiversity -- Unit 3: Sustaining biodiversity -- Sustaining biodiversity: saving species and ecosystem services -- Sustaining biodiversity: saving ecosystems and ecosystem services -- Sustaining aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services -- Unit 4: Sustaining natural resources -- Food production and the environment -- Water resources -- Geology and mineral resources -- Nonrenewable energy -- Energy efficiency and renewable energy -- Unit 5: Sustaining environmental quality -- Environmental hazards and human health -- Air pollution and ozone depletion -- Climate change -- Water pollution -- Solid and hazardous waste -- Urbanization and sustainability -- Unit 6: Sustaining human societies -- Economics, environment, and sustainability -- Politics, environment, and sustainability -- Environmental worldviews, ethics, and sustainability.