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5 Environmental Systems International Environmental Policy 196
and Ecosystem Ecology 122 Approaches to Environmental Policy 198

CENTRAL CASE STUDY P ART TWO
The Vanishing Oysters
of the Chesapeake Bay 123

Earth’s Environmental Systems 124
Ecosystems 128
Biogeochemical Cycles 135
The Science Behind the Story:
“Turning the Tide” for Native Oysters in
Chesapeake Bay 136
The Science Behind the Story: Environmental Issues and
FACE-ing a High-CO Future 142 the Search for Solutions
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6 Ethics, Economics, and 8 Human Population 206
Sustainable Development 150
CENTRAL CASE STUDY
CENTRAL CASE STUDY China’s One-Child Policy 207
Costa Rica Values Its
Ecosystem Services 151

Our World at Seven Billion 208
Culture, Worldview, and the Environment 152 The Science Behind the Story: Mapping
Environmental Ethics 153 Our Population’s Environmental Impact 212
Economics and the Environment 159 Demography 214
The Science Behind the Story: Population and Society 220
Do Payments Help Preserve Forest? 162
The Science Behind the Story: Did Soap
The Science Behind the Story: Operas Reduce Fertility in Brazil? 222
Ethics in Economics: Discounting
and Global Climate Change 166 9 Soil and Agriculture 232
Sustainable Development 174
CENTRAL CASE STUDY
Iowa’s Farmers Practice No-Till
7 Environmental Policy: Agriculture 233
Making Decisions and
Solving Problems 179
Soil: The Foundation for Sustainable

CENTRAL CASE STUDY Agriculture 234
Hydrofracking the Soil as a System 236
Marcellus Shale 180 Conserving Soil 240
The Science Behind the Story: Can No-Till
Farming Help Us Fight Climate Change? 248
Environmental Policy: An Overview 182 Watering and Fertilizing Crops 250
The Science Behind the Story: Does The Science Behind the Story:
Fracking Contaminate Drinking Water? 184 Restoring the Malpai Borderlands 252
6 U.S. Environmental Law and Policy 187 Agricultural Policy 255

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