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Environmental Science
Principles and Practices
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2013
Summary
Environmental Science: Principles and Practices provides the scientific principles, concepts, applications, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and manmade, evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and examine alternative solutions (such as renewable energy sources) for resolving and even preventing them. Frank R. Spellman and Melissa Stoudt introduce the science of the environmental mediums of air, water, soil, and biota to undergraduate students.
Interdisciplinary by nature, environmental science embraces a wide array of topics. Environmental Science: Principles and Practices brings these topics together under several major themes, including
How energy conversions underlie all ecological processes
How the earth’s environment functions as an integrated system
How human activities alter natural systems
How the role of culture, social, and economic factors is vital to the development of solutions
How human survival depends on practical ideas of stewardship and sustainability
Environmental Science: Principles and Practices is an ideal resource for students of science in the classroom and at home, in the library and the lab.
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Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-60590-786-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8611-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
710
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
CHAPTER 1. The Environment and Environmental Science No access
CHAPTER 2. Environmental Science: The Fundamentals No access
CHAPTER 3. Environmental Chemistry No access
CHAPTER 4. Environmental Biology No access
CHAPTER 5. Environmental Toxicology No access
CHAPTER 6. Environmental Geology and Groundwater Hydrology No access
CHAPTER 7. Environmental Sampling and Analyses No access
CHAPTER 8. Technology and Environment No access
CHAPTER 9. The Atmosphere: Basic Air Quality No access
CHAPTER 10. Meteorology No access
CHAPTER 11. Atmospheric Pollutants No access
CHAPTER 12. Atmospheric Air Dispersion No access
CHAPTER 13. Atmospheric Change No access
CHAPTER 14. All about Water: Earth’s Blood No access
CHAPTER 15. Freshwater: Surface and Ground Sources No access
CHAPTER 16. Water Pollution and Control No access
CHAPTER 17. Soil Characteristics, Pollution, and Pollution Control No access
CHAPTER 18. Solid/Hazardous Wastes and Control No access
