Reading List

RQ: What are the effects humans have on the environment?

Subject Terms

Environment

Nature

Agriculture Industry

Pollution

Habitat

BRODER, JOHN M. "New E.P.A. Scrutiny Is Set for a Chemical in Plastics." Environment. New York Times, 29 Mar. 2010. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. .

This newspaper article will be used to contact the important facts about factories releasing toxics into the environment and they are harmful to both human and animals.

Camacho-Muñoz, M.D., et al. "Presence of pharmaceutically active compounds in Doñana Park (Spain) main watersheds." Journal of Hazardous Materials 177.1-3 (2010): 1159-1162. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.

This source will be used to let the people know that in Spain, wastewater have been discharged to the Donana bodies water were water is not treated their could be possible affects to the environment.

Coghlan, Andy. Pollution triggers bizarre behaviour in animals.NewScientist, 2004. Web. 31 Mar.2010. animals.html>

This magazine article discuss about pollution which deals with human effect the environment causing animals to behave differently.

Foley, Jonathan. "BOUNDARIES FOR A HEALTHY PLANET." Scientific American 302.4 (2010): 54-57. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.

This source will be used to discuss the effect the human have on the environment during the revolution that cause the expansion of pollution.

Marshall, Andrew R., et al. "The species–area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community." American Journal of Primatology 72.4 (2010): 325-336. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.

This source will be used to communicated the interaction between humans and primate habitat and how the human influence the way a primate (monkey lives).

Robbens, Johan, et al. "Eco-, geno- and human toxicology of bio-active nanoparticles for biomedical applications." Toxicology 269.2/3 (2010): 170-181. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2010.

This source will be used to discuss the effect human have done to the environment relating to toxics that can affect the human body.

Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2002. Print.

This book will be use to discuss the interaction between humans and nature (environment).

Yang, Z.F., et al. "Limiting factor analysis and regulation for urban ecosystems—A case study of Ningbo, China." Communications in Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation 15.9 (2010): 2701-2709. Academic Search Premier

This will be used to understand the human carrying capacity and how it will effect the amount of resources the environment can provide.

"PR EPA TO BETTER PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT FROM ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS." EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA, 05 Mar. 1998. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. .

This website will be used to discuss the effects the human have on the environment because their are factories in the area where animals are kept and knowing what they do to these animals effect everyone and everything.

"Humans and the Environment." AlbertaSource Websites. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. .

This website will be used to discuss the first human interaction with the environment thousands years ago.