Environmental Science: Science-Based Problem Solving in Today's World

This introductory-level online environmental science textbook with labs focuses on specific environmental issues and the scientific approaches used to address them, employing an inquiry-based, hands-on approach. Students learn to:

• appreciate the importance of uncertainty and risk in the practice and interpretation of science
• explore the science, economics, and policies of prevailing issues in the environment, and
• discover how human activities drive rapid evolutionary changes which require science-based management strategies.