Encyclopedia of Environmental Science Vol 2
- New Delhi Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. 2014
- 293
The purpose of this book is a straightforward one to present a fair reflection of approaches currently employed to address environmental issues and to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them and to understand the essential facts and deeper cultural connections of topics and issues related to the scientific study of the environment and its impacts on humanity. Human biological and cultural origins are, of course, deeply tied to the environment. But just as earth's environment shaped humanity, human activity (anthropogenic activity) now leaves an unmistakable stamp upon the natural world. Encyclopedia of environmental Science places special emphasis on exploring the impacts of human habitation and economic activity on the environment. This book also reflects the scientific consensus regarding global climate that it is real and an urgent global problem and offers topics developed to explaining both the science and the social challenges. We wrote this book to convey these exciting scientific insights to a readership including undergraduate, postgraduate environmental studies majors and environmental conservation professionals that is not intimately familiar with environment as a scientific discipline. Our hope is that readers will come to appreciate the intricate ways that humans are connected to their environment and how their interactions can after the sustainability of the very ecosystems of which they are a part to their environment and how their interactions can alter the sustainability of the very ecosystems of which they are a part and from which they derive vital services. We do not consider ourselves to be environmentalists, which we define as someone who advocates particular ways of solving problmes. As a scientist who studies the workings of envirom=nmental systems. We feel it is our duty to present the science as clearly and as objectively as possible and in ways that illuminatye the consequences of different actions so that each reader can make informeed decisions about how he or she chooses to the consequences of different actions so that each readers the very humbling understanding that the consequences of our decisions today will be felt by our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. These are the timesscales at ehe least on which enviromental functions operate and on which we need to anticipate our impacts.
Contents Alagal Blooms Alternative Fuel Impacts Antarctic Issues and Challenges Antarctic Treaty Aquatic Primary Production Asbestos Contamination Atmospheric Circulation Aviation Emissions Benthic Ecosystems Biostratigraphy Brownfields Buffering Capacity Carbon Sequestration Chemical Spills Clean Air Act of 1970 Clean Air Mercury Rule of 2005 Clean Development Mechanism Clean Energy Clean Water Act Climate Modeling Coal Gastification Processes Coal Resource Use Coal Usage and resources Coal and the environment Coal and climate change Clean Coal Technologies Coastal Zones Commercial Fisheries Community Health Composing DDT Dendrochronology Desalination Deserts Disinfection Earth Day Ecodisasters Ecological Competition Ecosystem Theory Eco-terrorism Electronics Waste Electrostatic Precipitation Emissions Standards Energy Sources Alternatives Environmental Activism Environmental Crime Environmental Education Environmental Health Environmental Law Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Epidemiology Extinction and Extirpation Fish Farming Flood COntrol and Floodplains Fossil Fuel Cleaning Processes Gaia Hypothesis Geochemistry Glacial Retreat Glaciation Green Movement Habitat Loss Hurricanes : Katrina Environmental Impacts Hybrid Vehicle Ice Ages Industrial Ecology Industrial Water Use Industrialization in Emerging Economies Inland Fisheries Insecticide Use International Environmental Law Invasive Species IPCC 2007 Report Iron Fertilization Light Pollution Limnology Liqufied Natural Gas Resource Use Marine Fisheries Marine Water Pollution Mobile Source Pollution Modeling of Estuarine Water Quality Municipal Wastewater Microbial Processes Macro Nutrients Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium Calcium Magnesium Sulfur National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) Noise Non-Ionizing Radiations North Atlantic Oscillation Nuclear Test Ban Treaties Ocean Circulation and Currents Ocean Salinity Oil Pollution Acts Paper and Wood Pulp Particulate Emissions Particulate Removal Pesticides Pharmaceutical Development Resources Plankton Radiation Ecology Radionuclides of Ecological Importance Radiative Forcing Radon Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting Recreational Use and Environmental Destruction Red Tide Remote Sensing Seasonal Migration Sediment Trasport Shrublants Silent Spring Snow and Ice Cover Stack Sampling Streamflow Temprature Records Teratogens The Terrestrial System Thermal Effects on FIsh Ecology Toxic Waste Toxicology United Nations Convention on the Law the Sea (UNCLOS) United Nations Policy and Activism Urban Air Pollution Modeling Vapor and Gaseous Pollute Fundamentals Vegetation Cycles Waste Reuse Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954(WPEPA) Waether Extremes Wilderness Act of 1964 Wildlife Control Wildlife Population Management Wildlife Protection Policies and Legislation Wildlife Refuge Zoology