Earth Resources and the Environment : Pearson New International Edition （4TH）

Craig, James/ Vaughan, David/ Skinner, Brian

Pearson Education Limited（2013/11発売）

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 548 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781292040998
DDC分類 333.7

Full Description

Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors offer full coverage of all major types of earth resources-energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil. A minimal scientific background is assumed.

1. Minerals: The Foundations of Society
2. Plate Tectonics and the Origins of Resources
3. Earth Resources Through History
4. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use
5. Energy From Fossil Fuels
6. Nuclear and Renewable Energy Sources
7. Abundant Metals
8. The Geochemically Scarce Metals
9. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals
10. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals
11. Water Resources
12. Soil as a Resource
13. Future Resources