Environmental Science for Environmental Management by Timothy O'riordan

Environmental Science for Environmental Management by Timothy O'riordan

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Provides the student with an introduction to environmental science and its use in creating an effective approach to management in various forms. Takes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental management and has contributions from authors with backgrounds in geography, geology and biology.

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Environmental Science for Environmental Management by Timothy O'riordan

An excellent, successful text, offering an innovative interdisciplinary approach to environment science. It is written by a team of leading experts from the internationally renowned School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. The contributors have backgrounds in economics, geography, geology, hydrology, soil science, chemistry and biology. Environmental Science for Environmental Management demonstrates how environmental sciences can be made more effective in environmental management. It considers the relationship between science, politics and the ethics of environmental issues, as well as the bases for regional and local resource allocation.
'This is the first text on Environmental Science to strike the balance between the needs of the Earth as an ecosystem and our needs as its inhabitantsAn essential guide to present and future environments.' (James E Lovelock, CBE, FRS) 'This book is well presented with clear and interesting illustrations, figures and boxed examples. It has an undergraduate textbook 'feel' and a price to match.' (International Journal of Project Management)
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ISBN 13 9780582218895
ISBN 10 0582218896
Title Environmental Science for Environmental Management
Author Timothy O'riordan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Year published 1994-10-03
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.