Activities Workbook for Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories - Softcover

Withgott, Jay H.; Brennan, Scott R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321590570 ISBN 13: 9780321590572

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings, 2008

Synopsis

The Activities Workbook provides active learning exercises and in-class activities to help students interpret graphs and data, calculate ecological footprints, engage in the causes and consequences of key environmental issues, and devise their own solutions to environmental problems.

About this title

About the Author:

Scott Brennan teaches environmental science, policy, and journalism at Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment. He has also worked as a journalist, policy analyst, and environmental consultant. The recipient of a Duke University research fellowship in marine science, Brennan's accomplishments have been recognized by Washington State University, Western Washington University, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Jay Withgott is a science and environmental writer, and has written for a variety of journals and magazines including Science, New Scientist,Current Biology, Conservation in Practice, and Natural History. Holding an undergraduate degree in History and Studies in the Environment atYale University, Withgott has authored nearly 20 scientific research papers and has taught labs in Ecology and other subjects while gaining masters degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Arkansas) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Arizona).

About this edition

• Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0321590570
• ISBN 13: 9780321590572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 160