Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Environmental interactions, cycles, and systems -- Ecology and environmentalism -- History of environmental science -- Changing attitudes to the natural world -- Further reading -- Earth Sciences -- The formation of rocks, minerals, and geologic structures -- Weathering -- The evolution of landforms -- Coasts, estuaries, sea levels -- Energy from the Sun -- Albedo and heat capacity -- The greenhouse effect -- The evolution, composition, and structure of the atmosphere -- General circulation of the atmosphere -- Oceans, gyres, currents -- Weather and climate -- Glacials, interglacials, and interstadials -- Dating methods -- Climate change -- Climatic regions and floristic regions -- Further reading -- Notes -- Physical Resources -- Eutrophication and the life cycle of lakes -- Salt water, brackish water, and desalination -- Irrigation, waterlogging, and salinization -- Soil formation, ageing, and taxonomy -- Transport by water and wind -- Soil, climate, and land use -- Soil erosion and its control -- Mining and processing of fuels -- Mining and processing of minerals -- Further reading -- Biosphere -- Major biomes -- Nutrient cycles -- Respiration and photosynthesis -- Energy, numbers, biomass -- Ecosystems -- Succession and climax -- Arrested successions -- Colonization -- Stability, instability, and reproductive strategies -- Simplicity and diversity -- Homoeostasis, feedback, regulation -- Limits of tolerance -- Further reading -- Biological Resources -- Evolutionary strategies and game theory -- Adaptation -- Dispersal mechanisms -- Wildlife species and habitats -- Biodiversity -- Fisheries -- Forests -- Farming for food and fibre -- Human populations and demographic change -- Genetic engineering -- Further reading.

References -- Environmental Management -- Zoos, nature reserves, wilderness -- Pest control -- Restoration ecology.