Environmental Success Stories - Solving Major Ecological Problems and Confronting Climate Change

Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and a responsive public sector have dealt with them successfully. Frank M. Dunnivant explains how we might confront the world¿s largest and most complex environmental crisis: climate change.

List of contents

Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Securing Safe, Inexpensive Drinking Water
2. Effective Treatment of Our Wastewaters
3. The Removal of Anthropogenic Lead, and Soon Mercury, from Our Environment
4. Elimination of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons from Our Environment
5. The Safety of Chemicals in Our Food and Water: Risk Assessment
6. Saving Our Atmosphere for Our Children
7. Legislating Industry: The Need and the Success
8. The Rapid Advancement of Technology: Our Best Hope
9. Humans' Greatest Challenge: Climate Change
10. Conclusion and Transition to a Bright Future
Afterword: Imagination, Imagination, Responsibility, and Climate Change, by Kari Marie Norgaard
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Frank M. Dunnivant is professor of chemistry at Whitman College. He has worked at two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories. For the past twenty years he has taught an environmental science course to nonscience majors that seeks to inform and inspire action to save the environment.

Summary

Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and a responsive public sector have dealt with them successfully. Frank M. Dunnivant explains how we might confront the world’s largest and most complex environmental crisis: climate change.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Dunnivant, Frank M. Dunnivant, Dunnivant Frank
• Assisted by: Norgaard Kari (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231179195
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17919-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, chemistry, Conservation of the environment, Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy and protocols, Water supply and treatment, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Environmental