Allin, Craig W.

These titles will appeal to high school through graduate students and to general readers, some of whom may prefer small, topical, paperback volumes, and libraries will appreciate the shorter volumes' lower cost. The best contemporary feature of encyclopedias is the multiple access points provided by digitization; these titles are available as ebooks (which cost the same as the paperback titles) but lack the wider access to the Salem Science database that is free with purchase of the hardcover set. Libraries that subscribe to the Gale Virtual Reference Library of Encyclopedias, however, will find similar material in its Environmental Encyclopedia.

Editor Allin (political science, Cornell; Politics of Wilderness) has completely revised the text of this alphabetically arranged work (the first edition was published in 2000)...

This four-volume set provides a wide variety of perspectives about Earth's natural resources and explains the interrelationships among resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology...