The environment : principles and applications
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The environment : principles and applications
Routledge, 2001
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at / 28 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 637-645) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and environment interact. Focusing particularly on the environmental impacts of human activities, the book explains the ways in which an understanding of basic physical principles can help us to use the environment and its resources.
Three particular approaches are adopted throughout:
* a systems approach - highlighting the interactions and interrelationships between the environment's diverse parts
* an interdisciplinary perspective - stepping back from an individual subject focus to examine the complex breadth of the environment's diversity
* a global perspective - incorporating stimulating examples drawn from around the world to illustrate broad global patterns and contrasts.
The Environment explains the principles and applications of the different parts of the Earth's system: the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and explains the interrelationship across these systems. It explores the present environmental crisis, examines how the planet Earth fits into the wider universe, and explores human-environment interactions, to offer a clear understanding of the diverse and complex environment we live in and new ways of thinking about the way it is changing.
Specific features include:
* Lively, stimulating and accessible text
* Superb illustrations: 4-colour plate sections
* Case studies drawn from around the world, boxed within the text
* Chapter summaries
* Annotated further reading lists
A Lecturer's Manual is available to accompany the text.
Table of Contents
- Part I Environment in crisis: population and environment
- environmental systems
- spaceship earth. Part II The lithosphere: structure of the earth
- dynamic earth
- earth materials. Part III The atmosphere: the atmosphere
- atmospheric processes
- weather systems
- climate. Part IV The hydrosphere: the hydrological cycle
- water resources
- drylands
- cold and ice
- oceans and coasts. Part V The biosphere: the biosphere
- ecosystems, succession and biomes
- soil. Part VI Reflections: retrospect and prospect.
by "Nielsen BookData"