Ecology and applied environmental science / by Kimon Hadjibiros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadjibiros, Kimon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Environmental sciences.

Environmental engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Taylor & Francis 2014

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Systems and Ecosystems; Chapter 2: Organisms and Environmental Factors; Chapter 3: Organisation at Population Level; Chapter 4: Organisation at the Ecosystem Level; Chapter 5: Values, Alterations and Degradation of the Natural Landscape; Chapter 6: The Environment in the City; Chapter 7: Toxic Pollution; Chapter 8: Water Pollution; Chapter 9: Air Pollution and Global Change; Chapter 10: Pollution Control Technology; Chapter 11: Tools for Environmental Analysis, Evaluation and Management; Chapter 12: Biodiversity and Landscape Protection

Chapter 13: Environment and DevelopmentSelected Bibliography; Appendix; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-07154-X

1-4665-7010-5

9780429071546

OCLC:

864520407

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access