Books in Maps of the Environmental World series

Readers will love exploring the exciting and ever-changing world around them. This informative and visually appealing book informs readers about preservation efforts for landscapes, species, and more. Detailed photographs, maps, and data panels will captivate readers. Their learning and comprehension will be continued with comparison exercises and study questions.

The world of travel is expansive; the type of transportation required to get from one place to another varies depending on terrain, location accessibility, and population—among other factors. Readers will discover how people travel by plane, train, automobile, and many other forms of transportation. Insightful photographs are accompanied by accessible text that will inspire even the most reluctant of readers to continue turning pages.

The world of travel is expansive; the type of transportation required to get from one place to another varies depending on terrain, location accessibility, and populationamong other factors. Readers will discover how people travel by plane, train, automobile, and many other forms of transportation. Insightful photographs are accompanied by accessible text that will inspire even the most reluctant of readers to continue turning pages.

Readers will love exploring the exciting and ever-changing world around them. This informative and visually appealing book informs readers about preservation efforts for landscapes, species, and more. Detailed photographs, maps, and data panels will captivate readers. Their learning and comprehension will be continued with comparison exercises and study questions.

Each title in this series addresses an environmental topic and illustrates its aspects with the help of maps. This title presents energy resources, and explains key ideas, concepts and vocabulary. Twelve spreads each introduce an area of the world, including a map locating relevant sites, graphs offering comparative data and photography. A spread at the back of the book provides further study and comparison exercises.

A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean―from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands.Home to Earth's longest mountain range, largest river, and greatest rainforest, no region boasts greater geographic extremes, faces greater environmental dangers, and enjoys more economic potential from its biodiversity than Latin America and the Caribbean.What are the political and economic factors affecting the Amazon's rapidly disappearing rainforest? What is being done to harvest life-saving drugs from the plants of the Orinoco? And what lies behind the mysterious disappearance of Central America's frogs? The work includes essays, tables and figures, and an appendix titled International Environmental and Developmental Agencies, Organizations, and Programs on the World Wide Web. Latin America & the Caribbean examines a region waking up to its environmental problems and possibilities.• Interesting sidebar articles, tables, and figures• Photos illustrating environmental resources and threats

Each title in the series addresses an environmental topic and illustrated its aspects with the help of maps. An introductory spread presents the topic and explains key ideas, concepts and vocabulary. Twelve spreads each introduce an area of the world, including a map locating relevant sites, graphs offering comparative data and photography. A spread at the back of the book provides further study and comparison exercises.

Each title in the series addresses an environmental topic and illustrated its aspects with the help of maps. An introductory spread presents the topic of transport networks and explains key ideas, concepts and vocabulary. Twelve spreads each introduce an area of the world, including a map locating relevant sites, graphs offering comparative data and photography. A spread at the back of the book provides further study and comparison exercises.