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fishing practices and, 460, 460f steps, 635 adaptive management, 333–334
PV cells. See photovoltaic cells symbol, 635f ecosystem-based management, 333
Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica), 316 Red List, 301 maximum sustainable yield, 333, 333f
pyroclastic flow, 59, 108 red tides, 455 strategies, 333
red-cockaded woodpecker, 314 resource partitioning, 95
Q reduce waste, 635t resource(s)
quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis), 94 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest consumption, 22–23, 32–33
in Great Lakes, 94, 95, 107f Degradation (REDD), 332 economics and allocation of, 159
Great Lakes food web and, 100 Rees, William, 22–23 environmental policy and, 182–183 186
in North America, 107f refining, 545, 546f forest, 328–329
spread, 95, 106–107 regime shift, 106 infinite, 164
trophic levels and, 100 Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RE- limited, 94–95
zebra mussels vs., 110 CLAIM) program, 476 sinks, 368
quality of life, 685–686 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), 530 substitutable, 164
Quaternary period, 56, Appendix E regional planning, 361 response, 394
questions, 29, 29f regulation(s), 187–188 restoration ecology, 110
Quist, David, 262–263, 279, 284–285, 284f freshwater pollution, 431–432 college campuses, 681–682
industrial solid waste, 640 Florida Everglades, 110–111
sanitary landfills, 631–632 mining, 661, 661f
R regulatory taking, 188 prairie, 110, 110f
Rabalais, Nancy, 428, 428f Reid, Harry, 583 results, 28f
radiation, 43 reintroduction, species, 315 analyzing/interpreting, 29
Hawaiian fruit flies, 74 relative humidity, 470 Retama, Armando, 484
nuclear power, 577–579 relativists, 154 reuse, 635t
radiative forcing, 505, 505f remote sensing, landscape ecology and, 132–133 revolving door, 186–187
radioactive fallout, 578, 578f, 580–581 renewable energy ribonucleic acid (RNA), 47
radioactive isotopes, 42 campus sustainability and, 678–679 Rice University, 681
radioactive waste converting to, 563 rifts, 59
disposal of, 582–584 economic policy tool, 602–603 Riley, James, 676
hazards, 645 technology, developing, 530f ring of fire, 57, 58f
leaking underground tanks, 431f renewable energy sources, 34, 34f ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), 317f
radioisotopes, 42, 181 bioenergy, 584–591 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
radiotracking birds, 313f converting to, 602–603 environmental conference, 195
radon, 384–385, 384f, 494, 494f geothermal energy, 616–618 fertility rates, 222–223
Rafflesia arnoldii, 312f hydroelectric power, 592–594 Rio Grande, 415
rainforest, tropical. See tropical rainforest market prices, 602f rising sea levels, 516–519
Rainforest Alliance, 345 “new,” 600–602 damage due to, 516–518
rainshadow, 118 ocean energy, 618–620 global average, 517f
rainwater, 424 solar energy, 606-594 impacts of, 501–502
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International subsidies, 603, 603f new epoch, 57
Importance, 423 transition, 602–603 risk, perception of, 398, 398f
ranchers wind power, 612-598 risk assessment, 398
agricultural policies, 255 renewable natural resources, 21, 22f environmental hazards and, 385, 398–399,
invasive grasses, 107 perpetually, 22 399f
Malpai Borderlands, 252–253 repeatability, 31 quantitative measurement of risk and,
random distribution, 81, 81f sustainability and, 32 398–399
rangeland, 234 repeatability, 31 risk management, 399
Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 24–25 replacement fertility, 218–219 environmental hazards and, 398–399
rate of natural increase, 84, 219 reproductive strategies, 86–87 nuclear power and nuclear weapons, 579,
rats, 25 reproductive window, 221 582
Ratti, Carlo, 638 research, 28–31 science and social factors in, 399–400
REACH program, 401–402, 402t funding, 31 river(s)
Reading Area Community College, 677 peer review, 30–31 braided, 412f
Reagan, Ronald, 195 sustainability, 688 dams, 421f
realized niche, 95, 95f research scientists, 31 excess water withdrawals, 415–416
rebound effect, 566 reserves meandering, 412f
RECLAIM program. See Regional Clean Air biodiversity and design of, 347 oxbow, 412f
Incentives Market program biosphere, 345f surface water convergence, 411–412
reclamation, 661, 661f fossil fuel, 541t, 547–550 roadless rule, 338
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation international, 344–345 rock, 54, 653
Act, 661, 664 marine, 462–463, 462f cycle, 54–57, 54f
recombinant DNA, 279, 279f minerals, discovery of, 665 igneous, 54f, 55
recombination, 68 proven recoverable, 545 metamorphic, 54f, 55f, 56
recovery, 629, 636f U.S. federal, 341–343 minerals, 653
recycling, 629, 631f reserves-to-production ratio (R/P ratio), 548 sedimentary, 54f, 55–56
campus, 674–675, 674f residence time, nutrient, 135, 475, 476f soil horizon, 237f
expansion, 635–637 resilience, 103 strip mining, 657 INDEX
landfill materials for, 637 resistance, 103 weathering, 237f
matter, 128 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Rodale Institute, 277
mineral, 665–666, 666t (RCRA), 194, 631 rodents, 117
municipal solid waste, 629f, 635–637 resource management, 333 Rodriguez Carlos Manuel, 151 I-17

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