Ecology and Applied Environmental Science addresses
the impact of contemporary environmental problems by using the main
principles of scientific ecology. It offers a brief yet comprehensive
explanation of ecosystems based on energy, populations, and cycles of
chemical elements. The book presents a variety of scientific ecological
issues and uses these to examine a range of environmental problems while
considering potential engineering, scientific, and managerial
solutions. It takes an engineering approach and avoids excessive
biological detail, while introducing ecology with a systemic approach.
The book examines categories of organisms as well as the physical and
chemical processes that affect them. It refers to the dynamics of
populations and analysis of their major mutual influences, elaborates on
the roles of primary production, limiting factors, energy flow, and
circulation of chemical substances in the ecosystems, and presents the
basic functions of aquatic ecosystems.
The author considers important issues related to environmental
degradation of forests, aquatic habitats, coastal zones, other natural
landscapes, and urban areas, includes a survey of problems related to
waste and toxic and radioactive substances, and presents the greenhouse
effect and impacts from climate change. He discusses environmental
management prospects and the potential for technological control of
pollution from liquid, solid, and gaseous waste. He also highlights
existing tools for environmental management, ecological and social
aspects of biodiversity and landscape protection, and the contrast
between development and environment in combination with ideas about
sustainability.
Preview Introduction , Chapter I and II ....
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