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Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this first volume, Managing Global Resources
and Universal Processes, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes used in environmental management. As an
excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on environmental
systems, it reflects an extensive coverage of the field and
includes the most important problems and solutions facing
environmental management today. This book practically demonstrates
the key processes, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this second volume, Managing Biological and
Ecological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes of the biosphere and all its systems. This
volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies
on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for
finding basic knowledge on the biosphere and ecological systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this sixth volume, Managing Human and Social
Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and
processes of all the environmental tools and their application to
human and social systems. It explains how these systems function
and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an
excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the human and
social systems and includes important problems and solutions that
environmental managers face today. This book practically
demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources
and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources
and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent
resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of
Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive
overview of environmental problems, their sources, their
assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a
topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to
questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume
set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights
from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The
experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone
volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features
of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today.
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human
population growth and our increased consumption of natural
resources cannot continue - there are limits to growth. This volume
demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems
using nature as a model. The book describes how nature uses three
growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in
improved overall ecosystem functioning and co-development. As
biomass growth is limited by available resources, nature uses the
two other growth forms to achieve higher resource use efficiency.
Through a universal application of the three 'R's: reduce, reuse,
and recycle, nature thus shows us a way forward towards better
solutions. However, our current approach, dominated by short-term
economic thinking, inhibits full utilization of the three 'R's and
other successful approaches from nature. Building on ecological
principles, the authors present a global model and futures scenario
analyses which show that implementation of the proposed changes
will lead to a win-win situation. In other words, we can learn from
nature how to develop a society that can flourish within the limits
to growth with better conditions for prosperity and well-being.
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human
population growth and our increased consumption of natural
resources cannot continue - there are limits to growth. This volume
demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems
using nature as a model. The book describes how nature uses three
growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in
improved overall ecosystem functioning and co-development. As
biomass growth is limited by available resources, nature uses the
two other growth forms to achieve higher resource use efficiency.
Through a universal application of the three 'R's: reduce, reuse,
and recycle, nature thus shows us a way forward towards better
solutions. However, our current approach, dominated by short-term
economic thinking, inhibits full utilization of the three 'R's and
other successful approaches from nature. Building on ecological
principles, the authors present a global model and futures scenario
analyses which show that implementation of the proposed changes
will lead to a win-win situation. In other words, we can learn from
nature how to develop a society that can flourish within the limits
to growth with better conditions for prosperity and well-being.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of
Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive
overview of environmental problems, their sources, their
assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a
topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to
questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume
set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights
from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The
experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone
volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features
of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today. In this second volume, Managing Air Quality and
Energy Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts
and processes of the atmosphere, with its related systems. This
volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies
on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for
finding basic knowledge on the atmosphere, and includes important
problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This
book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and
models used in studying environmental management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this second volume, Managing Biological and
Ecological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes of the biosphere and all its systems. This
volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies
on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for
finding basic knowledge on the biosphere and ecological systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this first volume, Managing Global Resources
and Universal Processes, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes used in environmental management. As an
excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on environmental
systems, it reflects an extensive coverage of the field and
includes the most important problems and solutions facing
environmental management today. This book practically demonstrates
the key processes, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of
Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive
overview of environmental problems, their sources, their
assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a
topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to
questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume
set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights
from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The
experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone
volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features
of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this third volume, Managing Soils and
Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the
geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are
introduced. It explains how these systems function and provides
strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent
resource for finding basic knowledge on the geosphere systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources
and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general
concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources
and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent
resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of
Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive
overview of environmental problems, their sources, their
assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a
topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to
questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume
set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights
from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The
experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying
environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone
volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features
of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today. In this second volume, Managing Air Quality and
Energy Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts
and processes of the atmosphere, with its related systems. This
volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies
on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for
finding basic knowledge on the atmosphere, and includes important
problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This
book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and
models used in studying environmental management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this third volume, Managing Soils and
Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the
geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are
introduced. It explains how these systems function and provides
strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent
resource for finding basic knowledge on the geosphere systems and
includes important problems and solutions that environmental
managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key
processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental
management.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management
Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of
environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their
solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of
contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about
environmental problems and their corresponding management issues.
This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning
Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and
features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in
their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management are presented here in six
stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental
systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key
processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services,
resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus,
socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic
knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems
function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes
the most important problems and solutions facing environmental
management today In this sixth volume, Managing Human and Social
Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and
processes of all the environmental tools and their application to
human and social systems. It explains how these systems function
and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an
excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the human and
social systems and includes important problems and solutions that
environmental managers face today. This book practically
demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in
studying environmental management.
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Explaining Technology
Roger Koppl, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Abigail Devereaux, Brian D. Fath, James Herriott, …
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R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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A long tradition explains technological change as recombination.
Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative
combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000
years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed
between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of
technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent
citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It
shows that combining and modifying pre-existing goods to produce
new goods generates the observed historical pattern of
technological change. A long period of stasis was followed by
sudden super-exponential growth in the number of goods. In this
model, the sudden explosion of about 250 years ago is a
combinatorial explosion that was a long time in coming, but
inevitable once the process began at least two thousand years ago.
This Element models the Industrial Revolution as a combinatorial
explosion.
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