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 timescales at the least on which environmental functions operate and on which we need to anticipate our impacts.

Contents
Adaptation
Adaptive Radiation
Agricultural Ecology
Amphibians
Angiosperms
Anthropology
Archaecology and Sustainable Development
Atolls
Agro Forestry
Bacteria
Barrier Islands
Beaches
Birds
Bony Fishes
Botany
Brophytes
Carivora
Chordates(Nonvertebrate)
Climatology
Coevolution
Cmmunities
Community Compostion
Conservation Biology
Confinental Shelf
Clear Cutting
Closed Ecology Experiments
Corporate Green Movement
Deep-Sea Hydrotherma Vent Faunas
Deposition
Draining of Wetlands
Dryland Farming
Dryland Farming Management Techniques
Denitrification
Ecological Niches
Economics
Embryology
Erosion
Ethics of Conservation
Ethnology
Evolution
Evolutionary Biodiversity
Evolutionary Genetics
Edaphology
Food Webs and Food Pyramids
Fungi
Fungi Nutrition and Cell Reproduction
Fear of Fungi
Fungi and Others
Fertigation
Filtration
Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Fluorescence Spectra
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectoscopy
Gelogical Time Scale
Geology , Geomorphology , and Geography
Gymnosperms
Habitat Tracking
Herbivory
Homo Sapiens
Human Evolution
Hydrocarbons
Indigenous Conservation
Interior Wetlands
International Trade and Biodiversity
Intertidal Zone
Lagoons
Lichens
Linguistic Diversity
Lysimety
Meteorology
Microbiology
Moutains
Maps and Atlases
Natural Selection
Nitrogen Cycle
Nutrient/Energy Cycling
Oceanic Trenches
Organic and Locally Grown Foods
Paleontology
Phylogeny
Plate Tectonics
Pollination
Positive Interactions
Preservation of Habitats
Preservation of Species
Primates
Recycling Waste Materials
Snowball Earth
Speciation
Sucession and Sucession like Processes
Sucession in Particular
Systematics
Species Reintroduction Programme
Superfund Sites
Surveying
Sea Level Rise
Topsoil Formation
Tourism, Ecotoutrism and Biodiversity
Tropical Rain Forests
The Importance of Rain Forests
The Future of Tropical Rain Forests
Urbanization
Valuing Biodiversity
Viruses
Viruses' Role in Disease
War and Conflict- Related Environmental Destruction
Xenathrans