Examining Energy and the Environment around the World

Bruce E. Johansen (Author)

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This volume addresses ten issues pertaining to energy and the environment, such as climate change, fossil fuels, endangered species, and renewable energy, and examines how these issues are affecting countries around the world.

In the industrial age, first powered by coal and then more often by oil, environmental degradation nearly inevitably followed resource exploitation and energy production. This book examines environmental issues in specific countries around the world as well as solutions some of these countries have discovered in order to help save the environment.

This volume includes 10 chapters, each addressing a specific issue relating to energy and the environment as it pertains to a variety of countries, including toxic chemicals, pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the issue. Following the chapter introduction, each chapter highlights that issue in eight countries and provides historic perspective. This work provides an overview for high school students and college students at the undergraduate level on 10 important topics that address matters relating to energy and the environment in the 21st century.

Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Climate Change
Overview
Australia
China
Greenland
India
Nigeria
Russia
Syria
United States
Chapter 2: Deforestation, Reforestation, and Desertification
Overview
Australia
Brazil
China
Honduras
Indonesia
Myanmar
Portugal
Russia
Chapter 3: Fossil Fuels and Mining
Overview
Canada
China
Indonesia
Nigeria
Philippines
Russia
South Pacific Islands
United States
Chapter 4: Endangered Species and Extinctions
Overview
Antarctica
Australia
Canada
China
Costa Rica
India
Russia
United States
Chapter 5: Indigenous Peoples
Overview
Canada: Dene Nation
Canada: Nunavut (Inuit)
Guyana
India
Mexico
Peru
Russia
United States: Navajo Nation
Chapter 6: Toxic Chemicals and Uranium
Overview
Australia
Bolivia
Canada
Iraq
Marshall Islands
Mexico
United States
Vietnam
Chapter 7: Pollution of Air and Water
Overview
Brazil
China
India
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Russia
United Kingdom
Chapter 8: Renewable Energy
Overview
Brazil
China
Denmark
Germany
India
Kenya
Morocco
United States
Chapter 9: Oceanic Issues
Overview
Australia
Bangladesh
Canada
China
Japan
Norway
United Kingdom
United States
Chapter 10: Water Issues
Overview
Australia
Brazil
China
India
Indonesia
Italy
United States
United States: Navajo Nation
Selected Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published	Apr 01 2019
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	400
ISBN	9781440859298
Imprint	ABC-CLIO
Illustrations	30 bw illus
Dimensions	254 x 178 mm
Series	Global Viewpoints
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Bruce E. Johansen

Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor…

This eye-opening, thought-provoking work challenges readers with accurate, current, and important information about the environment. For high school students, lower-level undergraduates, and general readers.

Library Journal
Overall, the entries are objective, very informative, and accessible to the general reader. Recommended for high-school and college-level courses.

Booklist Online
…the eclectic mix of data does provide interesting ideas for paper topics that would prove useful to libraries serving high school and undergraduate populations.

ARBA
Useful to libraries serving high school and undergraduate populations. . . Recommended.

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