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This book uses plain language to introduce the non-expert to the
fundamentals of environmental management, without requiring them to
have a solid grounding in the basic sciences. The authors build
upon the reader's natural understanding of scientific principles to
learn how to follow the consequences of change through natural
systems and to ask better questions about one's environment. Case
studies are provided, drawn from temperate ecosystems in and around
the human-altered agricultural landscapes and the built (human)
environment. Two sets of stories are crafted to explain scientific
concepts and introduce analytical approaches, identifying where and
how to obtain relevant information. The first covers water and
where it goes and what factors affects its fate, and the second how
key building blocks of life (carbon and the nutrients, nitrogen and
phosphorus) change chemical forms and cycles through the
environment. The role of soils in the nexus of environmental media
is explained. Sample questions and cheat sheets with sources of
information are included. Finally, the authors describe, and also
lead the reader to identify, how humans have altered core processes
and to judge the significance of these changes. The reader will
learn how to fix environmental dysfunction in both private and
public lives.
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