Population and its effects
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Overheads, tables, instructor notes:
- Figures
from text (Fundamentals of Environmental Physics,
Forinash).
Population
Pollution
Water and Food
Articles:
- 'Global Metal Pollution', J. O. Nriagu Environmentnt vol.32 No. 7
(1990) p7.
- 'A History of Global Metal Production', Science, Vol. 272 Issue
5259 (1996) p223.
- 'Lead in the Inner Cities', Howard
Mielke American Scientist vol. 87 No. 1 January-Febuary
(1999) p.62.
- 'Not
Cleaning Up' by W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American vol. 284 No.
2 Feb. (1999).
- 'Making
every drop count', Peter H. Gleick Scientific American vol. 284
No. 2 Feb. (2001) p.
- 'The
Bottleneck', E. O. Wilson from The
future of Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
- 'Aerosols
in the Atmosphere', Sarah GrahamScientific American vol. 287 No.
1 January (2002) p.
- 'An Environmental Fairy Tale', A Irwin in It must be beautiful: Great Equations of Modern
Science (Granta Press, 2002) ed. G. Farmelo.
- 'The Global Transport of Dust; An intercontinental river of dust,
microorganisms and toxic chemicals flows through the Earth's atmosphere',
Dale W. Griffin, Christina A. Kellogg, Virginia H. Garrison, Eugene A.
ShinnAmercian Scientist, vol. 90 No. 3 (2002) p 228.
- ‘Rapid
Worldwide Depletion of Predatory Fish Populations’, R. A. Myers and
B. Worm, Nature 423, (15 May 2003) pp 280-283.
- 'Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals Measuring chemicals in
human tissues is the "gold standard" for assessing people's exposure to
pollution', Ken Sexton, Larry L. Needham, James L. Pirkle Scientific
American vol. 92 No. 1 (2004) p 38.
- 'Human Population Grows Up', J. E. Cohen, Scientific American
Vol. 293 No. 9 (Sept. 2005) p48.
- 'Water footprints of nations: Water use of peoples as a function of their
consumption patterns' A. Y. Hoekstra and A. K. Chapagain, Water
Resource Management, vol. 21 (2007) p35.
- 'Water News: Bad, Good and Virtual' V. Smil, American Scientist,
vol. 96 No. 5 September-October (2008) p 399.
- 'The greenhouse hamburger', N. Fiala,
Scientific American, vol. 300, no. 2 (2009) p 72.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT): Water
Report 23: "Review of world water resources by country" http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stmm.
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