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The Student Atlas of Environmental Issues is an invaluable pedagogical tool for exploring the human impact on the air, waters, biosphere, and land in every major world region. This informative resource provides a unique combination of maps and data helping students understand the dimensions of the world's environmental problems and the geographical basis of these problems.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Physical Environment: Global Patterns Map 1. Current World Political Boundaries Map 2. World Climate Regions Map 3. Average Annual Precipitation Map 4. Temperature Regions and Ocean Currents Map 5. Vegetation Map 6. World Soil Orders Map 7. World Topography Map 8. World Ecological Regions Map 9. World Natural Hazards

Part II. The Human Environment: Global Patterns Map 10. World Population Density Map 11. World Land Use Map 12. World Urbanization Map 13. Mineral Fuels and Critical Metals Map 14. Surface Transportation Patterns Table A. World Countries: Area, Population, and Population Density, 1996 Table B. Agriculture and Food Table C. World Countries: Energy Production, Consumption, and Requirements, 1993 Table D. Top Ten Producers and Consumers of Major Metals,1985–1994

Part III. Human Impact on the Air Map 15. Global Air Pollution: Sources and Wind Currents Map 16. The Acid Deposition Problem: Air, Water, Soil Map 17. Acid Precipitation: Eastern North America Map 18. Major Polluters and Common Pollutants Map 19. The Ozone Hole: Antarctica, October 1989–October 1994 Map 20. Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Map 21. Potential Global Temperature Change Map 22. Reliance on Nuclear Power Map 23. The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Table E. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 1992

Part IV. Human Impact on Fresh Water and the Oceans Map 24. World Water Resources: Availability of Renewable Water Per Capita Map 25. World Water Resources: Annual Withdrawal Per Capita Map 26. World Water Supplies Map 27. Groundwater Use: The Oglalla Aquifer Map 28. Pollution of the Oceans Map 29. Oil Spill Disaster I: Prince William Sound Map 30. Oil Spill Disaster II: The Persian Gulf Map 31. Estuarine Pollution: Chesapeake Bay Map 32. Lake Pollution: The Great Lakes Map 33. A Declining Food Supply? The World’s Marine and Freshwater Systems Table F. Nutrient Discharges and Predicted Concentrations in U.S. Estuaries Table G. Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Services, 1980–1990 Table H. Marine and Freshwater Catches, Aquaculture, and Fish Consumption

Part V. Human Impact on the Biosphere Map 34. Cropland Per Capita: Changes, 1983–1993 Map 35. Annual Change in Forest Cover, 1981–1990 Map 36. Forest Defoliation: The European “Dead Zone” Map 37. Clearing the Tropical Forests: The Amazon Basin and Rondônia Map 38. Global Production of Wood Map 39. The Loss of Biodiversity: Globally Threatened Animal Species Map 40. The Loss of Biodiversity: Globally Threatened Plant Species Map 41. The World’s Wilderness Areas, 1500 and 2000 Map 42. Vegetation Zones of the Greenhouse World, 2050 Table I. Wood Production and Trade Table J. Globally Threatened Animal Species, 1990 Table K.Rare and Threatened Plants, 1991 Table L. Habitat Extent and Loss Table M. National Protection of Natural Areas

Part VI. Human Impact on the Land Map 43. The Risks of Desertification Map 44. Global Soil Degradation Map 45. Advancing Desert: Northern Africa, 1980–1994 Map 46. Environmental Degradation: Eastern Europe Map 47. Soil Erosion: The United States Example Map 48. Degree of Human Disturbance Table N. Land Area and Use