A guide to understanding the fundamental principles of environmental management [electronic book] : it ain't magic: everything goes somewhere / Andy Manale and Skip Hyberg.
By: Manale, Andy [author]
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Contributor(s): Hyberg, Skip [author].
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BookPublisher: Lonon : IWA Publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: online resource (226 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781789060980 (paperback); 9781789060997 (e-Book).Subject(s): Environmental managementDDC classification: 363.7 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 363.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this human-dominated "Anthropocene Epoch," how does one protect and manage scarce environmental resources?This book uses plain language to introduce the non-expert to the fundamentals of environmentalmanagement, without requiring them to have a solid grounding in the basic sciences. The authorsbuild upon the reader's natural understanding of scientific principles to learn how to followthe consequences of change through natural systems and to ask better questions about one'senvironment. Case studies are provided, drawn from temperate ecosystems and human-alteredlandscapes. Two sets of stories are crafted to explain scientific concepts and introduce analyticalapproaches, identifying where and how to obtain relevant information. The first covers waterand where it goes and what factors affect its fate, and the second how key building blocks of life(carbon and the nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus) change chemical forms and cycles through theenvironment. The role of soils in the nexus of environmental media is explained. Finally, the authorsdescribe, and also lead the reader to identify, how humans have altered core processes and tojudge the significance of these changes. The reader will learn how to fix environmental dysfunctionin both private and public lives.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The water cycle (hydrology -- Conservation of mass or everything goes somewhere -- Soils, or how dirt plays a part in the precarious balancing act of cycles -- Natural and human induced change -- Impacts of human caused changes to water flow and to the balancing of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles -- Putting it all together - case studies -- The answers to what is next, summary and conclusions.
In this human-dominated "Anthropocene Epoch," how does one protect and manage scarce environmental resources? This book uses plain language to introduce the non-expert to the fundamentals of environmental management, without requiring them to have a solid grounding in the basic sciences. The authors build upon the reader's natural understanding of scientific principles to learn how to follow the consequences of change through natural systems and to ask better questions about one's environment. Case studies are provided, drawn from temperate ecosystems and human-altered landscapes. Two sets of stories are crafted to explain scientific concepts and introduce analytical approaches, identifying where and how to obtain relevant information. The first covers water and where it goes and what factors affect its fate, and the second how key building blocks of life (carbon and the nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus) change chemical forms and cycles through the environment. The role of soils in the nexus of environmental media is explained. Finally, the authors describe, and also lead the reader to identify, how humans have altered core processes and to judge the significance of these changes. The reader will learn how to fix environmental dysfunction in both private and public lives.
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