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Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems

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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.

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  • 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, foodenergywater 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 third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are introduced. It 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 geosphere 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1390g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781138342651

About

Brian D. Fath is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland USA) and a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg Austria). He has published over 180 research papers reports and book chapters on environmental systems modeling specifically in the areas of network analysis urban metabolism and sustainability. He has co-authored the books A New Ecology: Systems Perspective (2020) Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of LifeEnvironment Relations (2019) and Flourishing within Limits to Growth: Following Natures Way (2015). He is also Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ecological Modelling and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Dr. Fath was the 2016 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for outstanding work in systems ecology and twice a Fulbright Distinguished Chair (Parthenope University Naples Italy in 2012 and Masaryk University Czech Republic in 2019). In addition he has served as Secretary General of the International Society for Ecological Modelling Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in the Community Surface Modeling Dynamics System and member and past Chair of the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality.Sven E. Jørgensen (19342016) was a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Copenhagen University. He earned a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He was an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University (Portugal) and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He was Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Modelling from the journals inception in 1975 until 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (2013) and Encyclopedia of Ecology (2008). In 2004 Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Medal. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2007 he received the Pascal Medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He published over 350 papers and has edited or written over 70 books. Dr. Jorgensen gave popular and well-received lectures and courses in ecological modeling ecosystem theory and ecological engineering worldwide.

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