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Now in a fourth edition, Environmental Change and Challenge is a fascinating introduction to the field of environmental studies. Respected geographers Philip Dearden and Bruce Mitchell explore a host of contemporary environmental issues such as drought, flooding, loss of biodiversity, ecosystem toxicity, and crop failure, while also offering a detailed overview of basic scientific concepts. Maintaining the same optimistic tone of previous editions, the text emphasizes that informed global citizens are the key to meeting these challenges and generating positive change. With increased coverage of demography, more international examples, and new material on human health and the environment throughout, this updated edition shows students how environmental concerns impact our daily lives both at home and abroad.

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Philip Dearden is a prolific and well-known geographer who teaches at the University of Victoria and is chair of the Department of Geography there. His research specialization is in conservation, in particular protected areas systems, and his work in this field has taken him around the world, though his focus has been on Canada and Southeast Asia. Currently Dearden's activity is centred on marine environments and he leads the Marine Protected Areas Research Group (MPARG) at the University of Victoria. In addition to co-authoring the first three editions of Environmental Change and Challenge, he has co-edited three editions of OUP Canada's Parks and Protected Areas in Canada with Rick Rollins.

Bruce Mitchell has been an OUP Canada author for over a decade, publishing four editions of Resource and Environmental Management in Canada as the volume's editor in addition to co-authoring the previous three editions of Environmental Change and Challenge. A professor of geography and environmental management at the University of Waterloo, he is also cross-appointed in the School of Planning and is currently serving as associate provost, Academic and Student Affairs. Mitchell has studied water management for over 42 years and in 2005 was named a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada and the International Water Resources Association. He received the Massey Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2008.