conservation of natural resources

Explains natural resources in our lives and how to safeguard them for generations.

Explores some of the major environmental challenges the world faces in the areas of food production, rising obesity rates in the developed world, and famine and hunger in underdeveloped nations.

Contains twenty-five articles that provide varying perspectives on topics related to the environment, debating the extent of environmental problems, which energy sources conserve the environment, how natural resources can be conserved, and what institutions and individuals can do to conserve.

Contains dozens of descriptions of jobs that involve spending time outdoors such as, agronomy, geology, and zoology.

Describes the efforts of fifteen young people to protect the environment in their communities in different countries around the world.

Discusses how the ways that we think about environmentalism has affected the way we think about conservation.

Introduces the people, land, oceans and climate of the Earth, and covering such global concerns as pollution, the Green House effect and desertification.

Text plus maps, photographs, charts, and graphs describe environmental conditions in the United States, historically and in modern times.

Careers. Contains career profiles of sixty-five jobs in the conservation and environmental field, including wilderness guide, urban forester, landscape architect, veterinarian, and others, each with information on salaries, employment prospects, education and training, special requirements, related unions and associations, and tips for entry.