Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, Updated Second Edition with DVD helps students understand the ongoing change, complexity, and conflict associated with environmental issues. Introducing the basic scientific concepts relevant to the study of the global environment,this text explains the application of science to resource management. The book aids student with an understanding of the biosphere's function, and to link basic environmental management principles to environmental and resource problems in a Canadian context. It provides both a basic background of the issues and a broad platform on which further understanding can bebuilt. This new updated edition includes a DVD in partnership with ekosTV (a web-based 'television station' that focuses its programming on environmental issues) that includes eight 8-15 minute teachable segments.
close this panelPhilip Dearden is at Department of Geography, University of Victoria. Bruce Mitchell is at Department of Geography, University of Waterloo.
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