Environment

Environment 7E is a comprehensive, systems-based environmental science text known for an accessible writing style and for its student-friendly integrated learning system designed to help students move from general concepts to specific applications. The new edition continues the tradition of currency as well as the systems approach, which emphasizes the interconnected nature of environmental science throughout the text making Environment 7/e the most student-friendly environmental science book. The result is a text that provides the basic facts, the various perspectives on the issues, and the framework for students to reach their own informed decisions so they can take an active, positive role in understanding and addressing the environmental challenges of today and tomorrow. 

• Systems focus throughout the text highlights how the various aspects of the environment interact, and how changes in one part of the environment might affect other processes, places and organisms. Understanding this is essential to managing existing problems, avoiding future problems and improving the world we live in. 
• Sustainability, a central theme, is integrated throughout the text
• Integrated learning system provides well-developed pedagogy and offers a clear way for students to move from general concepts to applications of key concepts.  Each chapter includes: Chapter introductions that illustrate certain concepts in the chapter with stories about some of today’s most pressing environment issues; Learning Objectives and Review Questions for each chapter section giving students structured and immediate opportunities for review; EnviroNews highlighting interesting, newsworthy facts that enhance text material; Case in Point features offers a wide variety of in-depth case studies that address important issues in the field of environmental science; Meeting the Challenge featuring profile environmental success stories; You Can Make a Difference segments offering practical lifestyle changes that students can make to improve the environment; Margin Glossaries providing handy definitions of the most important terms; Suggested Reading lists for each chapter are also available online to provide current references for further learning.
• Take a Stand features appear at the end of every chapter and ask students to enter into a debate about an issue or controversy from the chapter. Students then visit our website to find links for researching the situation and tools for organizing their arguments.
• World View and Closer to You reminders at the end of each chapter’s introduction direct students to visit www.wiley.com/college/raven where they can watch, read, and listen to local and global news stories relating to a chapter.
• Currency. All chapters have been painstakingly researched so that the most current evidence is cited. Both students and professors will benefit from the book's currency because environmental issues and trends are continually changing as new information becomes available.
• EnviroNews on Campus reports on recent campus and student efforts to improve the environment.
• Integrated media resources: WileyPLUS provides a significant tool for faculty by providing them with a mechanism for motivating students while integrating supplementary resources, including new videos and animations.
• Author team offers a varied background.  Peter Raven is an internationally respected botanist, environmentalist, world-renowned ecologist and director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens; Linda Berg is an experienced biology/botany educator who has taught both at the two and four-year college level and writer; and new co-author David Hassenzahl is well-regarded among environmental scientists for his work in risk analysis, teaches environmental science courses at UNLV. 
• 2008 World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau provides students with real-world information. Chapter 8 provides a student assignment of population questions based on the data sheet.
• Modeling appendix introduces students to the concept of models and modeling to predict events and relationships within environmental systems.

New to This Edition:

• Energy and Climate Change is a new, special chapter feature which relates energy and/or climate change to the topics in each chapter. At the end of the chapter is an Energy and Climate Change box.  Linked with this feature are a video, video lecture launcher PowerPoint, and an Instructor s Manual piece.  There are also callouts related to Energy and Climate Change that are easy to locate throughout the text by an icon a compact fluorescent light bulb superimposed over the sun.
• Critical Thinking and Review Questions, many new to this edition, encourage critical thinking and highlight important concepts and applications. At least one question in each chapter provides a systems perspective. New to this edition is the inclusion of another question that relates climate and energy to the chapter and new Visual questions added to each chapter.
• Additional downloadable audio podcasts from the Environmental News Network enable students to listen to influential figures discussing top questions in environmental science today
• Updated art program that reinforces and expands concepts discussed in the text. Numerous photographs and cartoons elaborate on relevant issues and add visual detail. Area maps feature insets of hemispheric locator maps.

Student Companion Site

The Student Companion Site gives students access to the rich tools and resources available for this text.

Instructor Companion Site

The Instructor Companion Site provides instructors with the rich tools and resources available for this text.

Biology Visual Library

Biology Visual Library containing all of the line illustrations in the textbook in jpeg format, as well as access to numerous other life science illustra-tions from other Wiley texts is available in Wiley-PLUS and on the instructor companion site.

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