Global Environmental Issues: Selections from CQ Researcher / Edition 1

by CQ Researcher

Overview

Do carbon offsets slow climate change?
Will the growing competition for energy trigger new international conflicts?
Should water be privatized?
Will global warming increase species losses?
Can individual action significantly reduce global climate change?

Global Environmental Issues, drawn from recent reports from CQ Press’s award-winning CQ Researcher, takes up these and other compelling questions. Each selection explores who the key players are and what’s at stake, skillfully covering the range of perspectives and scholarship surrounding an issue and preparing students to engage in the debate.

Features include a pro/con box, chronology, annotated bibliography, web resources, photos, charts, graphs, and maps.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608714131
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/19/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

CQ Researcher is the choice of librarians, researchers, and students seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on the most vital issues shaping our world. Each weekly report offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a single topic. Written by CQ Press's staff of experienced reporters, these reports provide up-to-date information on a wide range of social, economic, political, environmental, and international issues.