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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Animal Behavior Green Savings The Human and

How and Why Animals How Policies and Markets Environmental
Do the Things They Do Drive Energy Efficiency Impact of Fracking
3 VOLUMES MARILYN A. BROWN AND YU WANG How Fracturing Shale
KEN YASUKAWA, EDITOR
for Gas Affects Us
and Our World

MADELON L. FINKEL, EDITOR

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May 18, 2015 drawing on the rapidly growing
Discover why animals do what they literature in the field. . . .
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human behavior. FEATURES find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels,
FEATURES • Addresses broad questions but it also has potential for harm. This
• Provides readers with personal concerning electricity systems and book provides “one-stop shopping”
narratives from the researchers the economy for everyone who wants to know more
themselves, enabling rare insights about the issues.
into how researchers think and what MARILYN A. BROWN, PhD, is FEATURES
drives their studies endowed professor in the School of • Offers a comprehensive, impartial
Public Policy at the Georgia Institute understanding of unconventional
of Technology, where she created and
KEN YASUKAWA, PhD, is Mead Family directs the Climate and Energy Policy natural gas development from many
Professor of science and professor of Lab. different perspectives by experts in
biology at Beloit College, WI. He holds the field
a doctorate in zoology from Indiana YU WANG is assistant professor of
University and was a postdoctoral global energy policy in the Department
fellow at The Rockefeller University of Political Science at Iowa State MADELON L. FINKEL, PhD, is
Field Research Center. University. professor of health care policy and
research and director of the Office of
Global Health Education at the Weill
Cornell Medical College.

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