Managing the human impact on the natural environment : patterns and processes
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Managing the human impact on the natural environment : patterns and processes
Belhaven Press, c1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Based on a successful undergraduate course, this is designed to be a core textbook on the physical processes of the natural environment and the human use and abuse of it. Looking at the principles and practices of environment management the final section of the book looks to the future and our abilities to plan and control management strategies. The particular perspective applied here is from the discipline of geography, which the editor argues holds the key to our understanding how to manage the environment constructively. Given that the essential feature of environmental problems is their geographic pattern, this book should be of interest to both geographers and non-geographers alike.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Principles: introduction, M. Newson
- the geography of pollution, M. Newson
- the geography of conservation, T. Stevenson
- environmental law, D. Harte
- environmental economics, M. Newson. Part 2 Practices: patterns of air pollution, A. Davison
- patterns of fresh water pollution, M. Newson
- patterns of land, water and air pollution by waste, T. Douglas
- metal polution of sediments and soils, M. Macklin
- emergency planning and pollution, P. Read and B. Myers. Part 3 Futures: energy and the environment - types, sources, impacts anmd management, S. Openshaw
- energy, industry and pollution, I. Fells
- "natural" environments of the future, T. Stevenson and M. Newson
- management, control, planning futures, M. Newson.
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