Title: The cartoon guide to the environment /
Authors: Gonick, Larry; Outwater, Alice, 1959-
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Environmental sciences Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental education Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental sciences Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental education Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental education.; Environmental sciences; Environment; Ecology; Environmental sciences Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental education Caricatures and cartoons.; Environmental education; Environmental sciences; Milieuvraagstuk.; Environmental sciences Cartoons and caricatures.
Abstract: Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an online restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming-and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Forest and water -- More cycles -- Evolving systems, struggling individuals -- Communities wet- -- -And dry -- Let's eat! -- From hunting to planting -- What limiting factors? -- Bye, bye, biome! -- Energy webs -- Let's eat again! -- Bright lights, big city -- Pollution -- Earth island -- Bibliography -- Index.