Environmental Science and Sustainability - Softcover

Sherman, Daniel J.; Montgomery, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1324043482 ISBN 13: 9781324043485

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2023

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Environmental Science and Sustainability

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Daniel J. Sherman?is the Luce-Funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making at the University of Puget Sound. He received BA degrees from Canisius College (1995, political science) and Victoria University of Wellington (1996, Maori studies), MA degrees from Colorado State University (1999, political science) and Cornell University (2002, government), and a PhD from Cornell University (2004, government). He has won the Tom Davis Teaching Excellence Award: University of Puget Sound and won the Best Conference Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Society for Values in Higher Education, for “Sustainability as a Way of Thinking: Tools for Understanding Sustainability as Critical Inquiry and Achieving Integration Across the Higher Education Curriculum.” Sherman also worked for two years in the ecology group at the Los Alamos Natural Laboratory.

David R. Montgomery is a professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. He studies the evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies. He received a BS from Stanford University (1984, geology) and a PhD from UC Berkeley (1991, geomorphology). His field studies have included projects around the world and he is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He has received many awards throughout his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Vega Medal. His books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon, and The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood have all won the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction. Montgomery’s Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. He also coauthored with Anne Biklé The Hidden Half of Nature and What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Most recently, he published his case for regenerative agriculture, Regen: A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He is also a coauthor of the textbook Essentials of Physical Geography with W. W. Norton.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1324043482
• ISBN 13: 9781324043485
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 597
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