Applied Ecology & Environmental Management

Applied Ecology & Environmental Management

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Book Description
This book explains ways in which ecological science can be applied to solving some of the most crucial problems facing our world today. A major theme is how resources can be effectively managed and exploited in as near a sustainable manner as possible. The author draws together, in a single volume, major topics in environmental and resource management that have traditionally been dispersed amongst several different books. Applied Ecology starts with an analysis of our planet's basic natural resources - energy, water, and soil; it moves on to the management of biological resources - fish, grazing lands, and forests, and then to pest control and pollution: finally, the book tackles conservation and management of wild species and the restoration of ecological communities.The second edition of this text has been radically redesigned and rewritten. Each chapter starts with a list of questions, setting out the various fundamental problems to be considered. Interwoven with these practical problems is a clear explanation of the underlying basic science - ecology - studied at scales ranging from global, landscape, and ecosystem, down to the population and individual (and even their physiology and genetics). The science is illustrated by examples from every major geographic area of the world.This book is aimed primarily at undergraduate students taking courses in applied ecology, environmental science, environmental management and natural resources management. The author has extensive experience as a university teacher. Like his lectures, this book is scientifically rigorous yet clear and easy to understand.

Book Info
A text applying ecological science to the solution of some of the world's more difficult environmental dilemmas. Each chapter considers practical problems, with a clear explanation of the underlying basic science involved with their solution, studied at a variety of scales. Previous edition: c1996. Softcover. DLC: Environmental sciences.

Applied Ecology & Environmental Management,E. I. Newman,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,0632042656,Business/Economics,Ecology,Environmental Science,Environmental sciences,Life Sciences - Ecology,Science,Science / Ecology

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