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This book presents the interaction between humans and the environment in the light of the basic ecological principles. It integrates the economic, political and legal aspects of human relationships to the natural environment. Illuatrated with examples from around the world, this third edition has greater coverage of aquatic and stream ecology and features new material on soil and land resources. The book is/was somewhat distinctive in the depth of its emphasis on the relationship between human health and the enviroment.This textbook was written to support college/university enviromental science courses developed in almost all schools following the initial Earthday. It went through three editions plus an international edition companion to this, the third edition. As a textbook, "Living Within the System of Nature" was used in hundreds of colleges, universities and schools throughout the world."Living Within the System of Nature has been out of print since well before there was a Goodreads and well before e-publishing.