Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 2 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | Global Resources David M. Diggs Central Missouri State University Soraya Ghayourmanesh Bayside New York Raymond Pierre Hylton Virginia Union University Steven L. Driever Lenela Glass-Godwin Domingo M. Jariel University of Missouri Kansas City Colleen M. Driscoll Texas A M University Auburn University Louisiana State University at Eunice Albert C. Jensen Villanova University Thomas A. Eddy James S. Godde Monmouth College Central Florida Community College Richard C. Jones Emporia State University H. J. Eisenman Joelle D. Godwin Eckerd College Texas Woman s University Chand K. Jotshi University of Missouri Rolla Jessica O. Ellison Pamela J. W. Gore Georgia Perimeter College University of Florida Karen N. Kähler Clarkson University Robert D. Engelken D. R. Gossett Louisiana State University Shreveport Pasadena California Mark Kanazawa Arkansas State University Victoria Erhart D. Yogi Goswami University of Florida Carleton College Kyle L. Kayler Strayer University Thomas R. Feller Jerr y E. Green Miami University Mahopac New York Diann S. Kiesel Nashville Tennessee Mary C. Fields Richard Wayne Griffin Prairie View A M University University of Wisconsin Center Baraboo Sauk County Medical University of South Carolina David G. Fisher Clayton D. Harris Middle Tennessee State University Grove Koger Boise State University Lycoming College Dale L. Flesher Jasper L. Harris North Carolina Central University Narayanan M. Komerath Georgia Institute of Technology University of Mississippi Richard H. Fluegeman Jr. C. Alton Hassell Baylor University Padma P. Komerath SCV Inc. Ball State University George J. Flynn Craig Bond Hatfield The University of Toledo Ludwik Kowalski Montclair State University SlNYPlnttsburgg James F. Fowler Robert M. Hawthorne Jr. Marlboro Vermont Craig B. Lagrone . Analytical CMS Field Products State Fair Community College Donald R. Franceschetti Charles D. Haynes University of Alabama Ralph L. Langenheim Jr. University of Illinois Urbana University of .