Amazon, environmental chemistry

Using Models of Growth in the Amazon To Bring an Environmental Chemistry Topic into the General Chemistry Class... 

Extensive research has been carried out on the geochemistry, hydrochemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemistry of natural products of the Amazon region. However, most of these studies were carried out in laboratories far firom where the samples originate, and the results, although published in national and international periodicals, rarely found their way back to or aroused the interest of decision-makers responsible for the preservation and rational development of the region. When our association held a national meeting on Chemistry of the Amazon just... 

Kaplan, M. A. C. 1995. Amazonia versus Australia. Geographically distant, chemically close. In R. Seidl, O. R. Gottlieb, and M. A. C. Kaplan (eds.). Chemistry of the Amazon. Biodiversity, Natural Products, and Environmental Issues. P. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 

Cleary, D. and Thornton, J. (1994) The Environmental Impact of Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon, in Issues in Environmental Science and Technology I Mining and its Environmental Impact, (eds R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, pp. 17-29. 

Archey et al. (Chapter 6) outline a pedagogieal approaeh whieh introduces general chemistry concepts through consideration of environmental issues such as carbon dioxide uptake by the Amazon jungle. Application of concepts such as stoichiometry, molarity, solubility, and graph interpretation to the carbon footprint discussion of global sustainability exemplifies the utility of context-based pedagogy. 

Chemistry of the Amazon biodiversity, natural products, and environmental issues / Peter Rudolf Seidl, editor, Otto Richard Gottlieb, editor, Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan, editor. 

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