Environmental Management

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field. It focuses on challenges and opportunities, and core concepts.

Autorentext

Chris Barrow is Founding Editor of the journal Land Degradation & Development and continues to work on it. His research and publications focus on environmental management, land degradation, water and agriculture, tropical highland environments and smallholders. He has undertaken research in Malaysia, the sub-Antarctic, highland Morocco and Amazonian Brazil (floodlands). He lectured at Hull University (1975-77), joined Swansea University as a Lecturer in 1978, and retired from a Readership in late-2011. He worked as a palaeoecologist with the British Antarctic Survey (1972-75), gained a PhD from Birmingham University (1977) and a PGCE in 1978.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction to Environmental Management, 1. Introduction, 2. Environmental Management: Character and Goals, 3. Environmental Management and Science, 4. Environmental Management Background, Part II: Practice, 5. Environmental Management, Business and Law, 6. Participants in Environmental Management, 7. Environmental Management Approaches, 8. Data, Standards, Indicators, Benchmarks, Goal Setting and Objectives, Monitoring, Surveillance, Models and Auditing, 9. Proactive Assessment, Prediction and Forecasting, Part III: Global Challenges and Opportunities, 10. Resources: Character, Opportunities and Challenges, 11. Population Increase, Global Warming, Pollution, Biodiversity Loss and Diseases, 12. Human and Natural Causes, Part IV: Responses to Global Challenges and Opportunities, 13. Mitigation, Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation, 14. Technology and Social Developments, Part V: The Future, 15. The Way Ahead, Bibliography