Principles of Environmental Sciences

Principles of Environmental Sciences provides a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living and non-living environment and mankind. Both the analysis of such problems and the way solutions to enviro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Boersema, Jan J. (Editor ), Reijnders, Lucas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Temas:
Pollution.
Environmental management.
Environment.
Sustainability.
Environmental economics.
Environmental monitoring.
Environmental Management.
Environmental Sciences.
Environmental Economics.
Environmental Monitoring.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stating the Problem
  • Environmental Sciences, Sustainability, and Quality
  • Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Reconstructing Environmental Changes over the Last 3 Million Years
  • Environmental History: Object of Study and Methodology
  • Human Environmental History Since the Origin of Agriculture
  • Recent Developments and Trends
  • Principles and Methods
  • General Principles
  • Specific Principles
  • Social Science and Environmental Behaviour
  • The Natural Environment
  • Analytical Tools for the Environment-Economy Interaction
  • Analysis of Physical Interactions Between the Economy and the Environment
  • Environmental Policy Instruments
  • Environmental Institutions and Learning: Perspectives from the Policy Sciences
  • Technology for Environmental Problems
  • Integration
  • Environmental Modelling
  • An Illustration of the LCA Technique
  • Integrated Assessment
  • Context and Perspectives
  • Environmental Policies in Their Cultural and Historical Contexts
  • National Policy Styles and Waste Management in The Netherlands and Bavaria
  • Land Use in Zimbabwe and Neighbouring Southern African Countries
  • Climate Change Policy of Germany, UK and USA
  • Technical Progress, Finite Resources and Intergenerational Justice
  • Sustainability is an Objective Value
  • A Rejoinder to Wilfred Beckerman and Herman Daly
  • Transitions to Sustainability as Societal Innovations
  • Agriculture and Food Problems
  • Tracing the Sustainable Development of Nations with Integrated Indicators.

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