ABSTRACT
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.
The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features
- The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
- Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
- Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
- Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today
In this second volume, Managing Biological and Ecological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the biosphere and all its systems. This volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the biosphere and ecological systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities
part II|63 pages
COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management
part III|30 pages
CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management
part IV|80 pages
DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services
part V|38 pages
ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies
part VI|23 pages
NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature
part VII|108 pages
PRO: Basic Environmental Processes